Knighthoods of Christ : essays on the history of the Crusades and the Knights Templar, presented to Malcolm Barber /

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Imprint:Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.
Description:xix, 257 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:English
French
Subject:
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6282640
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:Housley, Norman.
Barber, Malcolm.
ISBN:075465527X (alk. paper)
9780754655275 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chiefly in English with one contribution in French.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Malcolm Barber: an appreciation, Anne Curry
  • Bibliography of works by Malcolm Barber 1970-2005
  • Part 1. The Crusades: Byzantium in western chronicles before the First Crusade
  • Knowing the enemy: Latin relations with Islam at the time of the First Crusade
  • Kingship, identity and name-giving in the family of Baldwin of Bourcq
  • Armenia, Edessa and the Second Crusade
  • The admirable enemy? Saladin and Saphadin in Ambroise's Estoire de la Guerre Sainte
  • Baldwin of Flanders and Henry of Hainault as military commanders in the Latin Empire of Constantinople
  • A female physician on the Fourth Crusade? Laurette de Saint-Valéry, Susan B. Edgington
  • Mounted warrior saints in crusader icons: images of the Knighthoods of
  • 'The common corps of christendom': Thomas More and the crusading cause
  • Part 2. The Knights Templar: Belchite, le Temple et Montjoie : la couronne d'Aragon et le Temple au XIIe siècle
  • The Military Orders and the East, 1149-1291
  • The old French William of Tyre and the origins of the Templars
  • The growth of the Order of the Temple in the northern area of the kingdom of Valencia at the close of the 13th century: a puzzling development?
  • The career of a Templar: Peter of St Just
  • Relations between houses of the Order of the Temple in Britain and their local communities, as indicated during the trial of the Templars, 1307-12
  • Italian Templar trials: truth or falsehood?
  • The last Master of the Temple: James of Molay
  • Index