Chronicles Of The Crusades

by Bohm

• ISBN13: 9780710309327
• ISBN10: 0710309325
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-27
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This central and important book reliably presents to us, in one volume, three of the most interesting contemporary accounts of the Crusades. The first is by Richard of Devizes and tells not only of events taking place in the Holy Land but also connects these with what was happening in England at the time. The second account is a work by Geoffrey de Vinsauf on the Third Crusade. This is a reliable account written by an eye witness to those ferocious assaults which Saladin made on the Christians and of the firmness with which Richard the Lionheart repulsed them. The third work is a memoir of Saint Louis, the Crusading King of France, written by Lord John de Joinville. All three accounts are a must not only for their content but for their contract as well.

Table of Contents

Chronicle of Richard of Devizes, concerning the Deeds of King Richard the First, King ot England	1	(64)
Geoffrey de Vinsauf's Chronicle of Richard the First's Crusade	65	(278)
Lord de Joinville's Memoirs of Louis IX., King of France, commonly called Saint Louis	343	(189)
Appendix to Joinville	532	(25)
List of the Knights who accompanied St. Louis to Palestine	532	(2)
Knights of the household who accompanied him to Tunis	534	(1)
Extracts from an Arabian MS., by Al Makrisi, containing the Saracenic account of the Crusade under St. Louis	535	(22)
Index	557