Chronique d’Ernoul and the Colbert-Fontainebleau Continuation of William of Tyre (Volume 1)

Until his retirement in 2013 Peter Edbury was professor of medieval history at Cardiff University, Wales. Among his numerous publications on the Crusades and the Latin East he edited John of Ibelin’s Livre des Assises (Brill, 2003).Massimiliano Gaggero is an associate professor at the Università degli Studi di Milano. His Per una storia romanza del rythmus caudatus continens appeared in 2016; he has co-authored the critical edition of book I of the Ovide moralisé (SATF, 2018).

• Volume 1PrefaceSigla and AbbreviationsGeneral IntroductionIntroduction: The Chronique d’ErnoulIntroduction: The ManuscriptsThe Chronique d’ErnoulAppendix 1: The Concluding PassageAppendix 2: A Summary History of the Latin East, 1100–1163Appendix 3: The Bern Burgerbibliothek ms 113 (F24)Appendix 4: The Table of Contents in F25 and F26GlossaryBibliographyIndexVolume 2PrefaceSigla and AbbreviationsIntroduction: The Colbert-Fontainebleau ContinuationIntroduction: The ManuscriptsTable 1: Manuscript Material Employed in the Preparation of This EditionThe Colbert-Fontainebleau Continuation of William of TyreAddendum: 1264–1277GlossaryBibliographyIndex

"…These two volumes, eagerly anticipated by scholars of crusading history ever since the plan to produce them was first signalled fifteen years ago, offer new critical editions of two key texts in the ‘Old French Willima of Tyre’ tradition [...] The majority of those advances have been due to the editors themselves, …, whose patient scholarship on this subject over more than a quarter of a century … has fundamentally reshaped our knowledge of these texts ... It therefore comes as no surprise that the editions of both texts are superb... Needless to say, these editions are nothing short of magisterial. I do not doubt that they will remain indispensable to historians of the Crusades...James H. Kane, Flinders University, in Parergon 41.1 (2024), 315-7."In conclusione, il lavoro di E. e G., sintesi felicissima delle competenze storiche e filologiche dei due studiosi, ha il merito di fornire a una platea di lettori potenzialmente ampia dei testi cronachistici di grande rilievo, accuratamente editi e accompagnati da ottimi strumenti di analisi e interpretazione. L’edizione dei testi è l’esito finale di un percorso di ricerca esemplare, le cui tappe intermedie sono scandite dai tanti articoli degli editori, che non si limitano al campo ecdotico [...]. Coloro che lavorano alla storia politica, sociale, linguistica e culturale dell’Oriente latino non possono che ral- legrarsi di questi due bei volumi e sperare che E. e G. non abbiano esaurito le loro energie e possano intraprendere un’analoga impresa volta all’edizione dell’Eracles."Laura Minervini, Medioevo Romanzo, 2024, pp. 446-449