The Old French William of Tyre

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-25688-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Französisch, Band 103, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 576 g

Reihe: The Medieval Mediterranean

William of Tyre's history of the Kingdom of Jerusalem has long been viewed as one of the most useful sources for the Crusades and the Latin East from the beginnings of the First Crusade to William's death shortly before Saladin's conquest of Jerusalem. However, this text was most popular during the medieval period in an Old French translation.
In The Old French of William of Tyre Philip Handyside identifies the differences between the Latin and French texts and analyses the translator motives for producing the translation and highlights significant changes that may provide a better understanding of the period in question. Handyside also argues for a complex manuscript tradition that developed across the medieval Mediterranean.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Handyside, Philip D

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Geschichte der Theologie, Einzelne Theologen
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Theologenbiographien, Religiöse Führer
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Abbreviations x
Introduction 1
1 Current Scholarship 9
2 Medieval Translation 16
Part 1
Comparison of the Editions
3 Introduction 23
4 The First Person 26
5 Classical and Biblical Allusions 33
6 Terminology 40
7 Lay Interest 44
8 Ecclesiastical Material 47
9 Background to French Crusaders and France 55
10 Italy and Greece 83
11 The Translator 88
12 The Translator as a Pilgrim 94
13 Views on the Military Orders 102
14 Reliability of the Editions 108
15 Dating the Translation 114
16 Summary of the Alterations 120
Part 2
The Manuscripts
17 Introduction 123
18 The Manuscript Tradition 132
19 Book 7 Chapter 22 137
20 Book 11 Chapter 14 151
21 Book 12 Chapter 1 167
22 Book 15 Chapter 22 171
23 Book 20 Chapter 11 186
24 Book 22 Chapter 6 197
25 The Rubrics 206
26 The Continuations 212
27 The Manuscript Stemma 215
Conclusion 222
Appendix
Sample Chapters with Full Apparatus Containing All of
the Variants to the Text, Including Minor Unique Readings and
Fifteenth-Century Redactions of the Text 229
Bibliography 266
Index 274

Über Autor(innen)

Philip Handyside, Ph.D. (2013), Cardiff University, is teaching at Stetson University. He writes on the Crusades and the Latin East, the Military Orders and Old French Historiography. His publications include 'Differing Views of Renaud de Châtillon: William of Tyre' and L’Estoire d’Eracles (2014).