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Deeds of the Cypriots
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Hardcover. The "Templar of Tyre" is the third and longest section of a 14th-century chronicle known as the "Gestes des Chiprois". Written by a Cypriot knight serving the Templar Master William of Beaujeu, it provides precious contemporary insights and the only eyewitness chronicle of the fall of Acre in 1291. Editor(s): Crawford, Dr Paul F. Series Editor(s): Barber, Professor Malcolm; Edbury, Professor Peter W.; Hamilton, Professor Bernard; Housley, Professor Norman; Jackson, Professor Peter. Series: Crusade Texts in Translation. Num Pages: 216 pages, Includes 2 maps. BIC Classification: 3H; DNF; HBJD; HBLC; HRAM9; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 540.
The so-called 'Templar of Tyre' is the third and longest section of an important 14th-century chronicle known as the Gestes des Chiprois. Written by a Cypriot knight who served the Templar Master William of Beaujeu as an Arabic translator and a member of his immediate retinue, the 'Templar of Tyre' provides precious contemporary insights, often drawn from the author's personal experience, into events beginning in the early 1230s and ending in 1309 in the East and 1314 in the West. Notably, it covers the last days of the mainland Crusader states and the fall of Acre in 1291 ... Read more
The so-called 'Templar of Tyre' is the third and longest section of an important 14th-century chronicle known as the Gestes des Chiprois. Written by a Cypriot knight who served the Templar Master William of Beaujeu as an Arabic translator and a member of his immediate retinue, the 'Templar of Tyre' provides precious contemporary insights, often drawn from the author's personal experience, into events beginning in the early 1230s and ending in 1309 in the East and 1314 in the West. Notably, it covers the last days of the mainland Crusader states and the fall of Acre in 1291 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Ashgate Publishing Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
266
Condition
New
Series
Crusade Texts in Translation
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781840146189
SKU
V9781840146189
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Ref
99-2
About Unknown
Paul Crawford is Assistant Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History at Alma College in Alma, Michigan. He received his PhD in history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and specializes in the military orders in the 13th and 14th centuries. He also maintains an ongoing involvement in the Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies (found at orb.rhodes.edu) as editor of ... Read more
Reviews for Deeds of the Cypriots
'... exemplary annotated translation... The text is a lively and sometimes moving account of the last years of Outremer written by a man who lived through the tumultuous events and witnessed many of them at first hand. His is the only eye-witness account of the fall of Acre in 1291 and his description of this last desperate engagement is one ... Read more