Chronicles of the Crusades
Subtitle: being contemporary narratives of the crusade of Richard Coeur de Lion
By: by Richard of Devizes and Geoffrey de Vinsauf ; and of the crusade of St. Louis, by Lord John de Joinville...
Contributors: Richard, of Devizes, fl. 1191.; Joinville, Jean, sire de, 1224?-1317?; Maqrīzī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 1364-1442.; Giles, J. A. 1808-1884, tr.; Johnes, Thomas, 1748-1816, tr.
Publisher: H. G. Bohn
Published: 1848
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 562
Subjects: Richard I, King of England, 1157-1199 -- Military leadership -- Early works to 1800.; Louis IX, King of France, 1214-1270 -- Early works to 1800.; Crusades -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
The chronicle here attributed to Geoffrey de Vinsauf is now shown to be, in large part, a Latin translation of Ambroses L'estoire de la guerre sainte, probably made by Richard, canon and prior of Holy Trinity, London, about 1200. cf. Gross, Sources and literature of English history.
Table of contents: title: Chronicle of Richard of Devizes, concerning the deeds of King Richard the First, king of England [tr. by J. A. Giles] - Geoffrey de Vinsauf's chronicle of Richard of First's Crusade. -Lord de Joinvelle's Memoirs of Louis IX, king of France, commonly called Saint Louis [tr. by Thomas Johnes] -Appendix to Joinville. List of the knights who accompanied Saint Louis to Palestine. Knights of the household who accompanied him to Tunis. Extracts from an Arabian ms., by Al Makrisi, containing the Saracenic account of the Crusade under St. Louis. -Index.