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  • The Conquest of Jerusalem and the Third Crusade

    Sources in Translation

    by Peter W. Edbury ...
    Series series Crusade Texts in Translation
    This is a complete collection in modern English of the key texts describing Saladin’s conquest of Jerusalem in October 1187 and the Third Crusade, which was Christendom’s response to the catastrophe. The largest and most important text in the book is a translation of the fullest version of the Old French Continuation of William Tyre for the years 1184-97. This key medieval narrative poses problems ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Law and History in the Latin East

    by Peter W. Edbury ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    This second collection of papers by Peter Edbury focuses primarily on the literature either composed in the Latin East or closely associated with it. The legal treatises from the kingdom of Jerusalem and from Cyprus and Antioch have long been recognized as providing insights into the juridical and social history of these places in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and some of the papers re ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Military Orders and Crusades

    Essays Presented to Helen J. Nicholson

    Edited by Peter Edbury, Paul Webster ...
    Series series The Military Religious Orders
    This volume celebrates the work and impact of Professor Helen Nicholson by bringing together twenty-two chapters by colleagues, former students and friends which focus on her major research interests: the Military Orders, women in the Middle Ages and the history of the crusades and the Latin East.These chapters develop and continue discussion that owes much to Nicholson’s research contributions, ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Medieval and Renaissance Famagusta

    Studies in Architecture, Art and History

    Edited by Michael J. K. Walsh, Peter W. Edbury, Nicholas S.H. Coureas ...
    There was a time seven centuries ago when Famagusta's wealth and renown could be compared to that of Venice or Constantinople. The Cathedral of St Nicholas in the main square of Famagusta, serving as the coronation place for the Crusader Kings of Jerusalem after the fall of Acre in 1291, symbolised both the sophistication and permanence of the French society that built it. From the port radiated ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Guillaume de Machaut

    The Capture of Alexandria

    Edited by Janet Shirley, Peter W. Edbury ...
    Series series Crusade Texts in Translation
    Guillaume de Machaut, a man famous for both his poetry and his musical compositions, wrote his Prise d’Alexandrie (or Capture of Alexandria) just a few years after the death of his hero, King Peter I of Cyprus (1359-69). It is a verse history of Peter’s reign, and was Machaut’s last major literary work. Peter’s ancestors had ruled the island of Cyprus since the 1190s, and in 1365 Peter gained ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Military Orders Volume V

    Politics and Power

    Edited by Peter Edbury ...
    Series series The Military Orders
    Scholarly interest and popular interest in the military orders show no sign of abating. Their history stretches from the early twelfth century to the present. They were among the richest and most powerful religious corporations in pre-Reformation Europe, and they founded their own states on Rhodes and Malta and also on the Baltic coast. Historians of the Church, of art and architecture, of ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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  • Lionheart

    The True Story of England's Crusader King

    by Douglas Boyd ...
    When people think of Richard the Lionheart they recall the scene at the end of every Robin Hood epic when he returns from the Crusades to punish his treacherous brother John and the wicked Sheriff of Nottingham. In reality Richard detested England and the English, was deeply troubled by his own sexuality and was noted for greed, not generosity, and for murder rather than mercy. In youth Richard ... Read more

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  • The Military Orders of the Middle Ages

    by Frederick Woodhouse ...
    In a rude and primitive condition of mankind might constitute right and strength and daring give rank. The aristocracy, therefore, will consist of the warriors while the weak, the young, the old and the women will occupy an inferior position. An uncivilized race is always at war. A system of mutual fear, hatred and injury seems to be the normal condition of savage man, in all ages and in every ... Read more

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  • Medieval Warfare 1000–1300

    Edited by John France ...
    Series series The International Library of Essays on Military History
    The study of medieval warfare has developed enormously in recent years. The figure of the armoured mounted knight, who was believed to have materialized in Carolingian times, long dominated all discussion of the subject. It is now understood that the knight emerged over a long period of time and that he was never alone on the field of conflict. Infantry, at all times, played a substantial role in ... Read more

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  • John of Brienne

    King of Jerusalem, Emperor of Constantinople, c.1175–1237

    by Guy Perry ...
    John of Brienne's progress, from mid-ranking knightly status to king of Jerusalem and, later, Latin emperor of Constantinople, traces one of the most remarkable careers in the entire medieval period. But how and why did he achieve such heights? This biographical study of aristocratic social and geographical mobility in the 'Age of the Crusades' reassesses John's fascinating life, and explores how ... Read more

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  • The Knights Templar at War, 1120–1312

    by Paul Hill ...
    A look at the famed medieval Catholic order, with an emphasis on military history—includes numerous illustrations.There are many books about the Knights Templar, the medieval military order which played a key role in the crusades against the Muslims in the Holy Land, the Iberian peninsula, and elsewhere in Europe. What is seldom explored is the military context in which they operated. This book ... Read more

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