The Conquest of the Holy Land by al al-Dn

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.

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.

Autorentext

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.

Klappentext

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.

Inhalt

List of illustrations

Preface

Abbreviations

Maps

Introduction

Structure

Historical background

Summary of text

Reliability and authorship of Part I

Style, language, and exegesis

The continuation (Parts II and III)

Manuscripts

Date

Notices, editions, and translations

Principles of edition and translation

Sigla used in this edition

Text and translation

Appendix 1Ralph of Coggeshall's Chronicon Anglicanum: Sources for 1187

Appendix 2Gazetteer

Appendix 3Biblical references

Bibliography

Index