Chronicles of the Crusades - Brossura

Joinville, Jean De; De Villehardouin, Geoffroy

 
9780140441246: Chronicles of the Crusades
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ISBN 10: 0140441247 ISBN 13: 9780140441246
Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 1963

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Two famous, firsthand accounts of the holy war in the Middle Ages translated by Margaret R. B. Shaw

Originally composed in Old French, the two chronicles brought together here offer some of the most vivid and reliable accounts of the Crusades from a Western perspective. Villehardouin's Conquest of Constantinople, distinguished by its simplicity and lucidity, recounts the controversial Fourth Crusade, which descended into an all-out attack on the E astern Christians of Byzantium. In Life of Saint Louis, Joinville draws on his close attachment to King Louis IX of France to recall his campaigning in the Holy Land. Together these narratives comprise a fascinating window on events that, for all their remoteness, offer startling similarities to our own age.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Jean de Joinville was a thirteenth-century medieval French chronicler. His most famous work is Life of St. Louis, a biography of Louis IX of France that chronicled the Seventh Crusade.

Geoffrey de Villehardouin was a soldier and historian who took part in, and wrote extensively on, the Fourth Crusade. His eyewitness account of the 1204 conquest of Constantinople is the earliest surviving French historical narrative.

Margaret R. B. Shaw is an author and translator whose work includes contributions to Chronicles of the Crusades by Jean de Joinville and Geffroy de Villehardouin and Scarlet and Black by Stendhal.

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Editore
Penguin Classics
Data di pubblicazione
1963
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0140441247
ISBN 13 
9780140441246
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
368
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9780140449983: Chronicles of the Crusades

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ISBN 10:  0140449981 ISBN 13:  9780140449983
Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2009
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