Conquest of the Holy Land By Salah Al-Din - A Critical Edition Translation of Anonymous Libellus De Expugnatione

The Libellus de expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum (or Little Book about the Conquest of the Holy Land by Salah al-Din) is the most substantial contemporary Latin account of the conquest of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1187. Seemingly written by a churchman who was in Jerusalem itself when the city was besieged and captured, the Libellus fuses historical narrative and biblical exegesis in an attempt to recount and interpret the loss of the Holy Land, an event that provoked an outpouring of grief throughout western Christendom and sparked the Third Crusade. This book provides an English translation of the Libellus accompanied by a new, comprehensive critical edition of the Latin text and a detailed study in the introduction.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Keagan Brewer, Keagan (University of Sydney Brewer, Keagan Kane Brewer, Brewer Keagan, James Kane, James H. Kane, Kane James
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780367729752
• ISBN: 978-0-367-72975-2
• No. of pages: 298
• Series: Crusade Texts in Translation
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Israel, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Middle East / General, HISTORY / Military / General, military history, HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine, HISTORY / Europe / Western, HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, Medieval History, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Middle Eastern history, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Crusades, 12th century, c 1100 to c 1199