Deeds Done Beyond the Sea: Essays on William of Tyre, Cyprus and the Military Orders presented to Peter Edbury(Crusades - Subsidia)

This volume celebrates Peter Edbury’s career by bringing together seventeen essays by colleagues, former students and friends which focus on three of his major research interests: the great historian of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, William of Tyre, and his Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum and its continuations; medieval Cyprus, in particular under the Lusignans; and the Military Orders in the Middle Ages. All based on original research, the contributions to this volume include new work on manuscripts, ranging from a Hospitaller rental document of the twelfth century to a seventeenth-century manuscript of Cypriot interest; studies of language and terminology in William of Tyre’s chronicle and its continuations; thematic surveys; legal and commercial investigations pertaining to Cyprus; aspects of memorialization, and biographical studies. These contributions are bracketed by a foreword written by Peter Edbury’s PhD supervisor, Jonathan Riley-Smith, and an appreciation of Peter’s own publications by Christopher Tyerman.

Table of Contents:
Contents: Foreword: Peter Edbury, Jonathan Riley-Smith; Preface. Part I William of Tyre: Some new light on the composition process of William of Tyre’s Historia, Benjamin Z. Kedar; William of Tyre’s attitude towards Islam: some historiographical reflections, Nicholas Morton; Biblical quotations and formulaic language in the Chronicle of William of Tyre, Alan V. Murray; William of Tyre and the first rulers of the Latin principality of Antioch, Thomas Asbridge; Differing views of Renaud de Châtillon: William of Tyre and L’Estoire d’Eracles, Philip D. Handyside; Re-translating William of Tyre: the origins of the Templars and Hospitallers according to London, British Library Additional Manuscript 5444, fols 242v-248r, Helen J. Nicholson; Saladin, from memory towards myth in the Continuations, John France; Holy war and kingship in fifteenth-century Hungary: The Libellus de virtutibus Mathiae Corvino Dedicatus of Andreas Pannonius (1467), Norman Housley. Part II Cyprus: Cypriot gold thread in late medieval silk weaving and embroidery, David Jacoby; 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, Angel Nicolaou-Konnari; Animals and the law: a comparison involving three thirteenth-century legal texts from the Latin East, Nicholas Coureas; Amanieu son of Bernard, Count of Astarac, croisé manqué? Deconstructing the myth of an eighteenth-century crusader, Michalis Olympios; Queen Plaisance of Cyprus and the Bulla Cypria, Chris Schabel. Part III The Military Orders: Gregory VII and the idea of a military-religious order, Paul F. Crawford; A rental of Hospitaller properties in twelfth-century Jerusalem, Denys Pringle; Afonso of Portugal, Master of the Hospital: 1202/3-1206, Anthony Luttrell; 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, Paula Pinto Costa. Part IV Afterword: Peter Edbury as an historian, Christopher Tyerman. Peter Edbury’s publications; Index.

About the Author :
Susan B. Edgington is a Senior Research Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London, UK; Helen Nicholson is Professor of Medieval History at Cardiff University, Wales, UK.