The Chronique d’Ernoul and the Colbert-Fontainebleau Continuation of William of Tyre
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Peter Edbury
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These volumes offer the first critical edition of the Chronique d’Ernoul and the so-called Colbert-Fontainebleau (or Acre) Continuation of William of Tyre in over 150 years. The material is accompanied by an extensive introduction, glossary and bibliography. These two thirteenth-century narratives recount the story of the crusades and the Latin East. Both are anonymous; both employed the French vernacular and both contain accounts that are essential for anyone studying the subject.
The Chronique d’Ernoul was completed in the 1230s in northern France. The main part of the Colbert-Fontainebleau Continuation of William of Tyre dates to the late 1240s and is a reworking of Ernoul with material going up to 1277; it was composed in the Latin East.
The Chronique d’Ernoul was completed in the 1230s in northern France. The main part of the Colbert-Fontainebleau Continuation of William of Tyre dates to the late 1240s and is a reworking of Ernoul with material going up to 1277; it was composed in the Latin East.
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Publication Date:
06 Jul 2023
978-90-04-54316-4
Publication Date:
06 Jul 2023
978-90-04-54759-9
Until his retirement in 2013 Peter Edbury was professor of medieval history at Cardiff University, Wales. Among his numerous publications on the Crusades and the Latin East he edited John of Ibelin’s Livre des Assises (Brill, 2003).
Massimiliano Gaggero is an associate professor at the Università degli Studi di Milano. His Per una storia romanza del rythmus caudatus continens appeared in 2016; he has co-authored the critical edition of book I of the Ovide moralisé (SATF, 2018).
Massimiliano Gaggero is an associate professor at the Università degli Studi di Milano. His Per una storia romanza del rythmus caudatus continens appeared in 2016; he has co-authored the critical edition of book I of the Ovide moralisé (SATF, 2018).
"…These two volumes, eagerly anticipated by scholars of crusading history ever since the plan to produce them was first signalled fifteen years ago, offer new critical editions of two key texts in the ‘Old French Willima of Tyre’ tradition [...] The majority of those advances have been due to the editors themselves, …, whose patient scholarship on this subject over more than a quarter of a century … has fundamentally reshaped our knowledge of these texts ... It therefore comes as no surprise that the editions of both texts are superb... Needless to say, these editions are nothing short of magisterial. I do not doubt that they will remain indispensable to historians of the Crusades...
James H. Kane, Flinders University, in Parergon 41.1 (2024), 315-7.
James H. Kane, Flinders University, in Parergon 41.1 (2024), 315-7.
Academic libraries and specialists in the history of the Crusades and the Latin East and postgraduate students. Also of interest to specialists in medieval historiography and Old French language and literature.