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. London–New York: Routledge, 2016, XIX+240 p. ISBN 9781472417831
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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 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 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