The Conquest of Santarém and Goswin's Song of the Conquest of Alcácer do Sal: Editions and Translations of De expugnatione Scalabis and Gosuini de exp

ISBN-13: 9780367753818 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 200 str.

Jonathan Wilson

Opis

Accompanied by comprehensive introductions and here translated into English for the first time, the two texts presented in this volume provide unique eyewitness testimony of the Christian conquests of Santarém in 1147 by King Afonso I, and of Alcácer do Sal in 1217.

Spis treści

General Introduction  Part I  De expugnatione Scalabis, Background and Analysis  De expugnatione Scalabis, Latin Text with English Translation  Part II  Gosuini de expugnatione Salaciae carmen, Background and Analysis  Gosuini de expugnatione Salaciae carmen, Latin Text with English Translation  Appendix I: Inscribed Text, Alc.415 fol. 145v  Appendix II: Maps

O autorze

Jonathan Wilson (PhD, Liverpool) is a Researcher in the Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM), Universidade Nova, Lisbon, and Research Fellow in the project Cistercian Horizons (IEM Nova, University of Évora, Catholic University of Portugal, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Monastery of Alcobaça) financed by Fundação de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal.