The 'Templar of Tyre': Part III of the 'Deeds of the Cypriots'

ISBN-13: 9781840146189 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 216 str.

Paul Crawford

Opis

The so-called Templar of Tyre is the third and longest section of an important 14th-century chronicle known as the Gestes des Chiprois. Written by a Cypriot knight who served the Templar Master William of Beaujeu, the Templar provides precious contemporary insights, often drawn from the author's personal experience, into events beginning in the early 1230s and ending in 1309 in the East and 1314 in the West. It covers the last days of the mainland Crusader states and provides our only eyewitness chronicle of the fall of Acre in 1291.

Recenzje

'... exemplary annotated translation... The text is a lively and sometimes moving account of the last years of Outremer written by a man who lived through the tumultuous events and witnessed many of them at first hand. His is the only eye-witness account of the fall of Acre in 1291 and his description of this last desperate engagement is one of the most vivid portrayals of battle in medieval literature.... This work makes a worthy addition to the Ashgate series of Crusader texts in translation which is proving so useful to teachers and students alike...' English Historical Review

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; The 'Templar of Tyre'; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Paul Crawford is Assistant Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History at Alma College in Alma, Michigan. He received his PhD in history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and specializes in the military orders in the 13th and 14th centuries. He also maintains an ongoing involvement in the Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies (found at orb.rhodes.edu) as editor of the crusades and the military orders sections.