This text is a translation of Guillaume de Machaut's "Prise d'Alexandrie". The aim of the book, which also carries notes and excerpts from French journals, is to remind the reader that the original 14th-century work is a work of poetry.
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... Læs mere
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.