Deeds Done Beyond the Sea: Essays on William of Tyre, Cyprus and the Military Orders Presented to Peter Edbury

264 Pages·2016·2.331 MB·English

by  Susan B. Edgington, Helen J. Nicholson (eds.)

Deeds Done Beyond the Sea
Crusades – Subsidia
Series Editor: Christoph T. Maier, University of Zurich, for
The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East
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Deeds Done Beyond the Sea
Essays on William of Tyre, Cyprus and the Military
Orders presented to Peter Edbury
Edited by
Susan B. Edgington
Queen Mary University of London, UK
and
Helen J. Nicholson
Cardiff University, UK
First published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing
Published 2016 by Routledge
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Deeds Done Beyond the Sea: Essays on William of Tyre, Cyprus and the Military Orders
Presented to Peter Edbury / edited by Susan B. Edgington and Helen J. Nicholson.
pages cm. – (Crusades. Subsidia 6)
Includes index.
1. William, of Tyre, Archbishop of Tyre, approximately 1130-approximately 1190.
Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum. 2. Jerusalem – History – Latin
Kingdom, 1099–1244. 3. Cyprus – History – Lusignan dynasty, 1192–1474.
4. Military religious orders. 5. Crusades. I. Edgington, Susan, editor of compilation.
II. Nicholson, Helen J., 1960- author, editor of compilation. III. Edbury, P. W.
(Peter W.) honorie.
D182.D44 2014
956’.014072–dc23
2013042236
ISBN 9781472417831 (hbk)
ISBN 9781315576220 (ebk)
Contents
Abbreviations ix
List of Contributors xi
Foreword: Peter Edbury xv
Jonathan Riley-Smith
Preface xix
Part I: WIllIam of tyre
1 Some New Light on the Composition Process of
William of Tyre’s Historia 3
Benjamin Z. Kedar
2 William of Tyre’s Attitude towards Islam:
Some Historiographical Reflections 13
Nicholas Morton
3 Biblical Quotations and Formulaic Language in the Chronicle
of William of Tyre 25
Alan V. Murray
4 William of Tyre and the First Rulers of the Latin Principality
of Antioch 35
Thomas Asbridge
5 Differing Views of Renaud de Châtillon: William of Tyre and
L’Estoire d’Eracles 43
Philip D. Handyside
6 Re-translating William of Tyre: The Origins of the Templars and
Hospitallers according to London, British Library Additional
Manuscript 5444, fols 242v–248r 53
Helen J. Nicholson
v
vi CONTENTS
7 Saladin, from Memory towards Myth in the Continuations 69
John France
8 Holy War and Kingship in Fifteenth-century Hungary:
The Libellus de virtutibus Mathiae Corvino Dedicatus of Andreas
Pannonius (1467) 83
Norman Housley
Part II: CyPrus
9 Cypriot Gold Thread in Late Medieval Silk Weaving
and Embroidery 101
David Jacoby
10 A New Manuscript of Leontios Makhairas’s Chronicle of
the ‘Sweet Land of Cyprus’: British Library, MS Harley 1825
and the Circulation of Manuscripts of Cypriot Interest in
Stuart England 115
Angel Nicolaou-Konnari
11 Animals and the Law: A Comparison Involving Three
Thirteenth-century Legal Texts from the Latin East 135
Nicholas Coureas
12 Amanieu Son of Bernard, Count of Astarac, Croisé Manqué?
Deconstructing the Myth of an Eighteenth-century Crusader 145
Michalis Olympios
13 Queen Plaisance of Cyprus and the Bulla Cypria 155
Chris Schabel
Part III: the mIlItary orders
14 Gregory VII and the Idea of a Military-Religious Order 171
Paul F. Crawford
15 A Rental of Hospitaller Properties in Twelfth-century Jerusalem 181
Denys Pringle
16 Afonso of Portugal, Master of the Hospital: 1202/3–1206 197
Anthony Luttrell
CONTENTS vii
17 The Identity of the Order of St John of Jerusalem in Portugal:
The Constitution of a Documentary and Monumental Memory
and the Agenda of the Late Crusade 207
Paula Pinto Costa
Part IV: afterWord
18 Peter Edbury as an Historian 221
Christopher Tyerman
Peter Edbury’s Publications 229
Index 237
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