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1 online resource (xx, 240 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Crusades - Subsidia
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Crusades. Subsidia.
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Includes index. |
| Summary |
This volume celebrates Peter Edbury's career by bringing together essays focusing on his major research interests; the great historian of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, William of Tyre, and his chronicle; medieval Cyprus; and the Military Orders in the Middle Ages. All based on original research, contributions include new work on manuscripts from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries; studies of language in William of Tyre; thematic surveys; legal and commercial investigations pertaining to Cyprus; aspects of memorialization, and biographical studies. |
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Some new light on the composition process of William of Tyre's Historia / Benjamin Z. Kedar -- William of Tyre's attitude towards Islam : some historiographical reflections / Nicholas Morton -- Biblical quotations and formulaic language in the Chronicle of William of Tyre / Alan V. Murray -- William of Tyre and the first rulers of the Latin principality of Antioch / Thomas Asbridge -- Differing views of Renaud de Châtillon : William of Tyre and L'estoire d'Eracles / Philip D. Handyside -- Retranslating William of Tyre : the origins of the templars and hospitallers according to London, British Library additional manuscript 5444, fols 242v-248r / Helen J. Nicholson -- Saladin, from memory towards myth in the continuations / John France -- Holy war and kingship in fifteenth-century Hungary : the Libellus de virtutibus Mathiae Corvino dedicatus of Andreas Pannonius (1467) / Norman Housley -- Cypriot gold thread in late medieval silk weaving and embroidery / David Jacoby -- A new manuscript of Leontios Makhairas' Greek chronicle of the "sweet land of Cyprus" : British Library, ms Harley 1825 and the circulation of manuscripts of Cypriot interest in Stuart England / Angel Nicolaou-Konnari -- Animals and the law : a comparison involving three thirteenth-century legal texts from the Latin East / Nicholas Coureas -- Amaneu, son of Bernard, Count of Astarac, croisé manqué : deconstructing the myth of an eighteenth-century crusader / Michalis Olympios -- Queen Plaisance of Cyprus and the Bulla Cypria / Chris Schabel -- Gregory VII and the idea of a military-religous order / Paul F. Crawford -- A rental of hospitaller properties in twelfth-century Jerusalem / Denys Pringle -- Afonso of Portugal, master of the hospital 1202/3-1206 / Anthony Luttrell -- The identity of the order of St. John of Jerusalem in Portugal : the constitution of a documentary and monumental memory and the agenda of the late crusade / Paula Maria de Carvalho Pinto Costa -- Peter Edbury as an historian / Christopher Tyerman -- Peter Edbury's publications. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
William, of Tyre, Archbishop of Tyre, approximately 1130-approximately 1190. Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum.
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Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum (William, of Tyre, Archbishop of Tyre) |
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Military religious orders.
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Military religious orders. |
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Crusades.
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Crusades. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Edgington, Susan B.
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Nicholson, Helen J.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Edgington, Susan B. Deeds Done Beyond the Sea. Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2014 9781472417831 |
| ISBN |
9781472417848 (electronic book) |
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1472417844 (electronic book) |
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9781472417855 (e-book) |
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1472417852 (e-book) |
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9781306840675 (e-book) |
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1306840678 (e-book) |
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1472417836 |
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9781472417831 |
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9781472417831 |
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