The Conquest of the Holy Land by bal% al-D+n: A critical edition and translation of the anonymous Libellus de expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladin [Hardcover]

The Libellus de expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum (or Little Book about the Conquest of the Holy Land by bal
% al-D+n) is the most substantial contemporary Latin account of the conquest of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1187. Seemingly written by a churchman who was in Jerusalem itself when the city was besieged and captured, the Libellus fuses historical narrative and biblical exegesis in an attempt to recount and interpret the loss of the Holy Land, an event that provoked an outpouring of grief throughout western Christendom and sparked the Third Crusade. This book provides an English translation of the Libellus accompanied by a new, comprehensive critical edition of the Latin text and a detailed study in the introduction.

List of illustrations

Preface

Abbreviations

Maps

Introduction

Structure

Historical background

Summary of text

Reliability and authorship of Part I

Style, language, and exegesis

The continuation (Parts II and III)

Manuscripts

Date

Notices, editions, and translations

Principles of edition and translation

Sigla used in this edition

Text and translation

Appendix 1Ralph of Coggeshalls Chronicon Anglicanum: Sources for 1187

Appendix 2Gazetteer

Appendix 3Biblical references

Bibliography

Index

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