Letters from the East :: crusaders, pilgrims and settlers in the 12th-13th centuries /

This volume presents translations of a selection of the letters sent by crusaders and pilgrims from Asia Minor, Syria and Palestine. There are accounts of all the great events from the triumph of the capture of Jerusalem in 1099 to the disasters of Hattin in 1187 and the loss of Acre in 1291. They c...

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Other Authors: Barber, Malcolm, Bate, Keith
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Multiple
Published: Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, ©2013.
Series:Crusade texts in translation ; v. 18.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:This volume presents translations of a selection of the letters sent by crusaders and pilgrims from Asia Minor, Syria and Palestine. There are accounts of all the great events from the triumph of the capture of Jerusalem in 1099 to the disasters of Hattin in 1187 and the loss of Acre in 1291. They convey the immediacy of circumstances which were frequently dramatic and often life-threatening, and show us the feelings of those who lived in and visited the crusader states. Some of the letters translated here are famous, others hardly known, but all offer unique insight into the minds of those wh.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 188 pages) : maps
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-173) and index.
ISBN:9781472413956
1472413954
9781472413949
1472413946
9781315592268
1315592266

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