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Caffaro, Genoa and the Twelfth-Century Crusades (Paperback)
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Caffaro, Genoa and the Twelfth-Century Crusades (Paperback)
Series: Crusade Texts in Translation
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This volume provides the first comprehensive English translation,
with a substantial introduction and notes, of the writings of
Caffaro of Genoa, as well as related texts and documents on Genoa
and the crusades. The majority of early crusading historiography is
from a northern European and clerical perspective. Here is a very
different voice, one with a more secular, Mediterranean tone. To
see the similarities and differences with the mainstream sources
offers an exciting new dimension to our understanding of the
reception of crusading ideas in the Mediterranean and, given
Genoa's prominence in the commercial world, can help to illuminate
the complex and controversial relationship between holy war and
financial gain. Caffaro's main composition, the 'Annals' of Genoa,
began with the First Crusade and extended down to 1163. It also
covers the city's dealings with the Papacy, the German Empire,
Sicily, Muslim Spain, and Pisa, as well as the development of Genoa
itself. Sections from Caffaro's continuators take the story down to
the Third Crusade. Caffaro's two other texts are exclusively about
the crusades: 'The Liberation of the Cities of the East' and 'The
Capture of AlmerA a and Tortosa', while associated with him but of
a later date is the 'Short History of Jerusalem'. Alongside these
narratives are a number of charters and letters that relate to, and
complement, the main texts. These relate to matters such as Genoese
privileges in the Holy Land and form a valuable resource in their
own right. Placed alongside Caffaro's narratives they can show the
blend of commercial energy, civic pride and religious conviction
that were the basis of Genoese activity in the complex world of the
medieval Mediterranean.
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