DEI GESTA PER FRANCOS by Michel Balard, Professor Benjamin Z. Kedar, Professor Jonathan Riley-Smith (Editor) ( 9780754604075 )

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DEI GESTA PER FRANCOS
ETUDES SUR LES CROISADES DEDIEES A JEAN RICHARD - CRUSADE STUDIES IN HONOUR OF JEAN RICHARD

By:

Michel Balard, Professor Benjamin Z. Kedar, Professor Jonathan Riley-Smith (Editor)

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Hardback

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0754604071

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9780754604075

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

1 January, 2001

Pages:

464

Language:

English, German, French

Description:

Jean Richard is the doyen of Crusade historians. To celebrate his 80th birthday, 39 colleagues contributed articles to this volume which illustrate Professor Richard's breadth of interest: the Crusades, the military orders, and the Latin settlements on the Levantine mainland and on Cyprus.

Synopsis:

Professor Jean Richard is the doyen of crusade historians. Although also well-known as one of the most distinguished historians of Burgundy, he has through publications which have been appearing for over half a century established himself as the greatest living scholar working on crusading and the Latin East. His book on twelfth-century Tripoli, published in 1945, is still the standard work on the county. In the 1950s he, and Joshua Prawer, provided a revolutionary approach towards the constitution and institutions of the kingdom of Jerusalem. He went on to pave the way for an entirely new understanding of the kingdom of Cyprus. In the 1960s he was one of a few historians who were sign-posting a more empathetic view of the ideology of crusading and the motivation of crusaders, and he developed his ideas further in recent monographs on Saint Louis and on the crusades in general. His work on Catholic missions to Asia and the role of the papacy in those enterprises is generally regarded as setting standards which few can approach.To celebrate his eightieth birthday thirty-nine colleagues have contributed articles in fields which themselves illustrate Professor Richard's breadth of interest: the crusades, the military orders, and the Latin settlements on the Levantine mainland and the island of Cyprus.

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Includes 41 b&w illustrations

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Ashgate Publishing Limited

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