How to defeat the Saracens text and translation with notes = Tractatus quomodo Sarraceni sunt expugnandi.

Adam, William of. & Ade, Guillelmus & Constable, Giles.

ISBN 10: 0884023761 / ISBN 13: 9780884023760

Verlag: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2012

Beschreibung

Washington D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2012. Dustjacket. Hardcover. xii, 138 pp. The fall of the crusader-controlled city of Acre to the Muslims in 1291 inspired many schemes for crusades to recover Jerusalem and its environs. One of these proposals isHow to Defeat the Saracens, written around 1317 by William of Adam, a Dominican who traveled extensively in the eastern Mediterranean, Persia, and parts of India. The treatise, poorly known even among specialists, presents a five-pronged plan for retaking the Holy Land. In particular, it focuses on cutting off economic and military support for Egypt. William s personal experience in the lands he describes comes through, for example, when he recollects his encounters in Persia with a captive Greek woman whose child he baptized, and in India with a lapsed Christian who said that God had abandoned him. In this volume Giles Constable provides a critical edition of the Latin text and a facing English translation. Extensive notes, produced in collaboration with other experts, guide the reader through the political, geographical, economic, military, and historical context of this fascinating work. Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9780884023760. Keywords : HISTORY,

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: How to defeat the Saracens text and translation with notes = Tractatus quomodo Sarraceni sunt expugnandi.
• Verlag: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0884023761
• ISBN-13: 9780884023760
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: as new
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag

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The fall of the crusader-controlled city of Acre to the Muslims in 1291 inspired many schemes for crusades to recover Jerusalem and its environs. One of these proposals isHow to Defeat the Saracens, written around 1317 by William of Adam, a Dominican who traveled extensively in the eastern Mediterranean, Persia, and parts of India. The treatise, poorly known even among specialists, presents a five-pronged plan for retaking the Holy Land. In particular, it focuses on cutting off economic and military support for Egypt. Williams personal experience in the lands he describes comes through, for example, when he recollects his encounters in Persia with a captive Greek woman whose child he baptized, and in India with a lapsed Christian who said that God had abandoned him. In this volume Giles Constable provides a critical edition of the Latin text and a facing English translation. Extensive notes, produced in collaboration with other experts, guide the reader through the political, geographical, economic, military, and historical context of this fascinating work.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Giles Constable (1929–2021) was the Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History at Harvard University and Director of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library. He was also Professor of Medieval History at the Institute for Advanced Studies.

Ranabir Chakravarti is Professor of Ancient History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Olivia Remie Constable is Professor in the Department of History and Director of the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame.

Tia Kolbaba is Associate Professor in the Department of Religion at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Janet M. Martin is Associate Professor Emerita in the Department of Classics at Princeton University.