Law and History in the Latin East

ISBN-13: 9780367600068 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 348 str.

Peter W. Edbury

Opis

This second collection of papers by Peter Edbury focuses primarily on literature composed in the Latin East. The legal treatises from Jerusalem, Cyprus and Antioch have long been recognized as providing insights into the juridical and social history of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The studies on historical literature are chiefly concerned

Spis treści

Contents: Preface; Legal Literature and the Law in the Latin East: Fiefs, vassaux et service militaire dans le royaume latin de Jérusalem; Fiefs and vassals in the Kingdom of Jerusalem: from the 12th century to the 13th; Philip of Novara and the Livre de Forme de Plait; The Livre des Assises by John of Jaffa: the development and transmission of the text; Women and the customs of the High Court of Jerusalem according to John of Ibelin; Cultural encounters in the Latin East. John of Jaffa and Philip of Novara; The Assises d’Antioche: law and custom in the principality of Antioch. The Old French William of Tyre and its Continuations: The French translation of William of Tyre’s Historia: the manuscript tradition; The Old French William of Tyre and the origins of the Templars; The Old French William of Tyre, the Templars and the assassin envoy; The Lyon Eracles and the Old French continuations of William of Tyre; New perspectives on the Old French continuations of William of Tyre; Gerard of Ridefort and the Battle of Le Cresson (1 May 1187): the developing narrative tradition; A new text of the Annales de Terre Sainte. Cyprus and Later Narrative Writing: Redating the death of King Henry I of Cyprus?; The De Montforts in the Latin East; The arrest of the Templars in Cyprus. Cyprus: Latins and Greeks on crusader Cyprus; The Templars in Cyprus; The ‘Cartulaire de Manosque’: a grant to the Templars in Latin Syria and a charter of King Hugh I of Cyprus. Crusading: The crusades and their critics; Looking back on the Second Crusade: some late 12th-century English perspectives; Preaching the crusade in Wales; Celestine III, the crusade and the Latin East. Addenda and corrigenda; Index.

O autorze

Peter Edbury is emeritus professor of Medieval History at Cardiff University.