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Uniform Title Récits d'un ménestrel de Reims au treizième siècle. English.
Title Tales of a minstrel of Reims in the thirteenth century / translated from the Old French by Samuel N. Rosenberg ; introduced by William Chester Jordan ; annotated by Randall Todd Pippenger
Published Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (lx, 222 pages)
Contents Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents and Synopsis -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Translator's Note -- I. The First Crusade. Louis VII is crowned king of France. -- II. Queen Eleanor is enamored of Saladin. Eleanor marries Henry II of England. -- III. Louis VII marries Adele of Champagne. Philip II is crowned king of France. -- IV. King Henry takes his intended daughter-in-law to bed. She, King Philip's sister, is later wed to the count of Ponthieu. Philip attempts to kill Henry and fails. King Henry commits suicide
V. The queen of Jerusalem succeeds in having her husband, Guy of Lusignan, crowned king. -- VI. The queen's foes plot to dethrone herhusband, Guy of Lusignan. Led by the count of Tripoli, they solicit the willing aid of Saladin. In battle with Saladin's troops, Guy is captured and imprisoned. Traitorous barons are rewarded by Saladin with gold and silver. Most of the kingdom of Jerusalem is now in Muslim hands. -- VII. Saladin liberates Guy and sends him to Tyre, where he is denied entry. The queen escapes and joins her husband outside the city. They receive material assistance from Saladin
VIII. The pope initiates a new crusade. The crusaders move against Tyre, which surrenders quickly. They go on to Acre, where lengthy combat results in Christian victory. The main victor is King Philip. -- IX. There is great enmity between Kings Richard and Philip. Richard goes to Germany, then Austria. He is captured and imprisoned. -- X. The count of Blois drowns in a storm at sea. Count Henry becomes king of Cyprus, has an accident, and dies. King Guy and his queen die after fourteen years in what is left of their realm. -- XI. Philip II returns to France. He marries Isabella of Hainault
XII. King Richard, secretly held captive by Duke Leopold of Austria, is discovered, thanks to the singing of Blondel of Nesle, and is ransomed. -- XIII. King Richard, back in England, nurses grievances against King Philip. He returns to France ready for armed conflict. A great battle at Gisors is followed by a remarkable duel with no winner. Rebellion across the Channel calls Richard back from France
XIV. King Philip decides to take advantage of Richard's return to Britain. He captures Richard's holdings at Gisors and Niort. Richard returns in secret to France. Conflict continues to rage between the two kings. At one point, Philip is saved from capture by the astucious Alan of Roucy. -- XV. Richard, learning of incursions by the king of Spain, responds with force. Battle between Richard and King Ferran results in Spanish defeat. Richard returns to England, then again to France. Richard the Lionhearted is wounded in battle and dies
Summary "Scholarly translation of Old French tales into English; an account by an anonymous, thirteenth-century minstrel of historical events, including battles for control of the Holy Land; medieval history dramatizing important events in the lives of Muslim and Christian prominent figures"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Crusades -- Sources
Middle Ages -- Sources.
Crusades -- Early works to 1800
Middle Ages -- Early works to 1800
HISTORY / Medieval
Crusades
Middle Ages
SUBJECT France -- History -- Capetians, 987-1328 -- Sources
France -- History -- Capetians, 987-1328 -- Early works to 1800
Subject France
Genre/Form Early works
History
Sources
Form Electronic book
Author Rosenberg, Samuel N., translator.
Jordan, William Chester, 1948- writer of introduction
Pippenger, Randall Todd, writer of annotations.
LC no. 2021048720
ISBN 9780813234366
0813234360