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This book picks up the threads of William's narrative soon after it breaks off in 1184 and goes on to provide a detailed account of the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem in 1187 and the subsequent Third Crusade.
List of contents
IntroductionThe Latin Continuation of William of TyreText
Translation
Appendix 1: Translation of BW's addition to William of Tyre,
Historia, 23.1
Appendix 2: Translation of
Cathalogi quorundam magnatumList of biblical citations
BibliographyIndex
About the author
James H. Kane is Lecturer in Medieval History at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia. He teaches across the history of the premodern world, with a particular focus on the crusades and medieval religion, and his research centres around the ideology, terminology, and historiography of the crusading movement. His publications include
The Conquest of the Holy Land by ¿al¿¿ al-D¿n, edited and translated with Keagan Brewer (2019), and
Crusade, Settlement and Historical Writing in the Latin East and Latin West, c. 1100-c. 1300, edited with Andrew Buck and Stephen Spencer (2024).
Keagan J. Brewer, FRHistS, is Research Fellow at Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia). His current research considers the place of atheism and unbelief in medieval European culture. He has previously written on the legend of Prester John, the emotion of wonder, and other aspects of Western European religion and culture in the Middle Ages. He enjoys editing and translating medieval texts. The current work is his third contribution to the Crusade Texts in Translation series.
Summary
This book picks up the threads of William’s narrative soon after it breaks off in 1184 and goes on to provide a detailed account of the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem in 1187 and the subsequent Third Crusade.
