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.

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Keagan Brewer, James Kane, Keagan Kane Brewer, James H. Kane, Keagan (University of Sydney Brewer, Brewer Keagan, Kane James
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 31.12.2020
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia; Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Politica
• EAN: 9780367729752
• ISBN: 978-0-367-72975-2
• Numero di pagine: 298
• Serie: Crusade Texts in Translation
• Categorie: 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, Medieval Historiography, Christian-Muslim relations, Biblical exegesis, Latin chronicles, crusader studies, twelfth-century Jerusalem, Latin eyewitness crusade account