Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: As is well known, Archbishop William of Tyre’s history relates the story of the First Crusade and the Latin settlements in the Levant as far as 1184. He was at work on his narrative of these events between about 1170 and 1184, and he died shortly before the collapse of the kingdom of Jerusalem in 1187. Historians have long been aware that behind the welter of detail and the measured Latin cadences – for William clearly considered himself something of a Latin stylist – lies much that is tende...
Source: Medievalista online
Author: Peter Edbury
Institution: Cardiff University
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2991967220