Böcker av Peter W. Edbury

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 Cyp

This second collection of papers by Peter Edbury focuses primarily on literature composed in the Latin East. The legal treatises from Jerusalem, Cyprus and Antioch have long been recognized as providing insights into the juridical and social history of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

In this study, first published in 1988, the authors offer the first full-scale study of William of Tyre as a historian. They examine the influences which fashioned his material, and examine what he had to say about certain topics - the monarchy in Jerusalem, the Church, the papacy, the Byzantine empire and the Crusade - and why he wrote as he did.

A collection in modern English of the key texts describing Saladin's conquest of Jerusalem in 1187 and the Third Crusade. The largest text in the book is a translation of the Old French "Continuation of William Tyre". Introductory notes and maps help interpret each of the texts.