Crusader Syria in the Thirteenth Century

Janet Shirley

• Contents: Plan of Jerusalem; Map of the Holy Land; Map of Egypt and southern Palestine; Introduction: the continuations of William of Tyre; Manuscripts; Content of the Rothelin text; Content of the Eracles text; Reliability of the texts; Notes on the translation; Bibliography; Acknowledgements; The Rothelin Continuation; The Eracles or Acre Continuation; Index.

'The editors of this series and the translator deserve congratulations for making these continuations of the History of William of Tyre more accessible....' Church History, Vol. 69, No. 1 'This is a very welcome addition to a new series, Crusade Texts in Translation, whose editors are making a determined effort to commission translations of works which hitherto have languished in relative obscurity...The aim of this series is to provide good translations of texts, and the present volume certainly satisfies that requirement. Janet Shirley is a highly experienced translator, and in this volume her translation lives up to the very high standard set by her Song of the Cathar Wars in the same series...This is a very useful and stimulating text and its translation is important to sustaining the development of crusading studies.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 10, No. 1