First published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing.
This volume celebrates Peter Edbury’s career by bringing together seventeen essays by colleagues, former students and friends which focus on three of his major research interests: the great historian of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, William of Tyre, and his 'Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum' and its continuations; medieval Cyprus, in particular under the Lusignans; and the Military Orders in the Middle Ages.
All based on original research, the contributions to this volume include new work on manuscripts, ranging from a Hospitaller rental document of the twelfth century to a seventeenth-century manuscript of Cypriot interest; studies of language and terminology in William of Tyre’s chronicle and its continuations; thematic surveys; legal and commercial investigations pertaining to Cyprus; aspects of memorialization, and biographical studies. These contributions are bracketed by a foreword written by Peter Edbury’s PhD supervisor, Jonathan Riley-Smith, and an appreciation of Peter’s own publications by Christopher Tyerman.
Author(s): Susan B. Edgington, Helen J. Nicholson (eds.)
Series: Crusades - Subsidia, 6
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: XX+240
Abbreviations ix
List of Contributors xi
Foreword: Peter Edbury / Jonathan Riley-Smith xv
Preface xix
Part I: William of Tyre
1. Some New Light on the Composition Process of William of Tyre’s 'Historia' / Benjamin Z. Kedar 3
2. William of Tyre’s Attitude towards Islam: Some Historiographical Reflections / Nicholas Morton 13
3. Biblical Quotations and Formulaic Language in the Chronicle of William of Tyre / Alan V. Murray 25
4. William of Tyre and the First Rulers of the Latin Principality of Antioch / Thomas Asbridge 35
5. Differing Views of Renaud de Châtillon: William of Tyre and 'L’Estoire d’Eracles' / Philip D. Handyside 43
6. Re-translating William of Tyre: The Origins of the Templars and Hospitallers according to London, British Library Additional Manuscript 5444, fols 242v–248r / Helen J. Nicholson 53
7. Saladin, from Memory towards Myth in the Continuations / John France 69
8. Holy War and Kingship in Fifteenth-century Hungary: 'The Libellus de virtutibus Mathiae Corvino Dedicatus' of Andreas Pannonius (1467) / Norman Housley 83
Part II: Cyprus
9. Cypriot Gold Thread in Late Medieval Silk Weaving and Embroidery / David Jacoby 101
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 / Angel Nicolaou-Konnari 115
11. Animals and the Law: A Comparison Involving Three Thirteenth-century Legal Texts from the Latin East / Nicholas Coureas 135
12. Amanieu Son of Bernard, Count of Astarac, Croisé Manqué? Deconstructing the Myth of an Eighteenth-century Crusader / Michalis Olympios 145
13. Queen Plaisance of Cyprus and the Bulla Cypria / Chris Schabel 155
Part III: The Military Orders
14. Gregory VII and the Idea of a Military-Religious Order / Paul F. Crawford 171
15. A Rental of Hospitaller Properties in Twelfth-century Jerusalem / Denys Pringle 181
16. Afonso of Portugal, Master of the Hospital: 1202/3–1206 / Anthony Luttrell 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 / Paula Pinto Costa 207
Part IV: Afterword
18. Peter Edbury as an Historian / Christopher Tyerman 221
Peter Edbury’s Publications 229
Index 237
