Deeds done beyond the sea: essays on William of Tyre, Cyprus and the military orders presented to Peter Edbury (2016)

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. London–New York: Routledge, 2016, XIX+240 p. ISBN 9781472417831

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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

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

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