Philip Handyside. The Old French William of Tyre (2015)

Philip Handyside. The Old French William of Tyre. Managing Editor: Frances St. Andrews; Editors: David Abulafia, Benjamin Arbel, Hugh Kennedy, Paul Magdalino, Olivia Remie Constable, Larry J. Simon; The Medieval Mediterranean Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 400–1500, Vol. 103. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2015, X+280 p. ISBN 9789004256880

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Ms. fr. 85 folio 2r.: William of Tyre, History of the Crusades translated into French, with an anonymous continuation to the year 1229. With kind permission of the Bibliothèque de Genève.

Contents

Acknowledgements ... IX

Abbreviations ... X

Introduction ... 1

1. Current Scholarship ... 9

2. Medieval Translation ... 16

Part 1

Comparison of the Editions

3. Introduction ... 23

4. The First Person ... 26

5. Classical and Biblical Allusions ... 33

6. Terminology ... 40

7. Lay Interest ... 44

8. Ecclesiastical Material ... 47

9. Background to French Crusaders and France ... 55

10. Italy and Greece ... 83

11. The Translator ... 88

12. The Translator as a Pilgrim ... 94

13. Views on the Military Orders ... 102

14. Reliability of the Editions ... 108

15. Dating the Translation ... 114

16. Summary of the Alterations ... 120

Part 2

The Manuscripts

17. Introduction ... 123

18. The Manuscript Tradition ... 132

19. Book 7 Chapter 22 ... 137

20. Book 11 Chapter 14 ... 151

21. Book 12 Chapter 1 ... 167

22. Book 15 Chapter 22 ... 171

23. Book 20 Chapter 11 ... 186

24. Book 22 Chapter 6 ... 197

25. The Rubrics ... 206

26. The Continuations ... 212

27. The Manuscript Stemma ... 215

Conclusion ... 222

Appendix

Sample Chapters with Full Apparatus Containing All of

the Variants to the Text, Including Minor Unique Readings and

Fifteenth-Century Redactions of the Text ... 229

Bibliography ... 266

Index ... 274