The Conquest of the Holy Land by Ṣalāḥ Al-Dīn: A Critical Edition and Translation of the Anonymous Libellus de Expugnatione Terr

ISBN-13: 9780367729752 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 298 str.

Keagan Brewer; James Kane

Opis

This book provides an English translation of Libellus de expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum accompanied by a new critical edition of the Latin text and a detailed study in the introduction.

 

Spis treści

List of illustrations

Preface

Abbreviations

Maps

Introduction

Structure

Historical background

Summary of text

Reliability and authorship of Part I

Style, language, and exegesis

The continuation (Parts II and III)

Manuscripts

Date

Notices, editions, and translations

Principles of edition and translation

Sigla used in this edition

Text and translation

Appendix 1—Ralph of Coggeshall’s Chronicon Anglicanum: Sources for 1187

Appendix 2—Gazetteer

Appendix 3—Biblical references

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Keagan Brewer and James H. Kane are both historians of the Crusades at the University of Sydney, Australia. Keagan Brewer is an Honorary Research Associate at the Medieval and Early Modern Centre and James H. Kane is a lecturer in medieval language and literature.