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Deeds Done Beyond the Sea Crusades – Subsidia Series Editor: Christoph T. Maier, University of Zurich, for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East Previous titles in the series: Contact and Conflict in Frankish Greece and the Aegean, 1204-1453 Crusade, Religion and Trade between Latins, Greeks and Turks Edited by Nikolaos G. Chrissis and Mike Carr La Papauté et les croisades / The Papacy and the Crusades Actes du VIIe Congrès de la Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East / Proceedings of the VIIth Conference of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East Edited by Michel Balard On the Margins of Crusading The Military Orders, the Papacy and the Christian World Edited by Helen J. Nicholson The Fourth Crusade: Event, Aftermath, and Perceptions Papers from the Sixth Conference of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East, Istanbul, Turkey, 25–29 August 2004 Edited by Thomas F. Madden In Laudem Hierosolymitani Studies in Crusades and Medieval Culture in Honour of Benjamin Z. Kedar Edited by Iris Shagrir, Ronnie Ellenblum and Jonathan Riley-Smith Deeds Done Beyond the Sea Essays on William of Tyre, Cyprus and the Military Orders presented to Peter Edbury Edited by Susan B. Edgington Queen Mary University of London, UK and Helen J. Nicholson Cardiff University, UK First published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing Published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Copyright © Susan B. Edgington and Helen J. Nicholson 2014 Susan B. Edgington and Helen J. Nicholson have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows: 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. pages cm. – (Crusades. Subsidia 6) Includes index. 1. William, of Tyre, Archbishop of Tyre, approximately 1130-approximately 1190. Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum. 2. Jerusalem – History – Latin Kingdom, 1099–1244. 3. Cyprus – History – Lusignan dynasty, 1192–1474. 4. Military religious orders. 5. Crusades. I. Edgington, Susan, editor of compilation. II. Nicholson, Helen J., 1960- author, editor of compilation. III. Edbury, P. W. (Peter W.) honorie. D182.D44 2014 956’.014072–dc23 2013042236 ISBN 9781472417831 (hbk) ISBN 9781315576220 (ebk) 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 v vi CONTENTS 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 Anthony Luttrell CONTENTS vii 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 This page has been left blank intentionally
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