Chronicles of the Crusades - Softcover

Joinville, Jean De; Villehardouin, Geffroy De

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1420934872 ISBN 13: 9781420934878

Publisher: Digireads.com, 2010

Synopsis

The individual narratives brought together here reveal insight into the two hundred year struggle for possession of Jerusalem, in the words of two soldiers who participated first-hand in the bloody campaigns. Geffroy de Villehardouin (1150-1212?) was an appointed marshal of Champagne, France, whose "Conquest of Constantinople" recounts the controversial Fourth Crusade of 1204, against Eastern Christians in the Latin empire of Constantinople. Jean de Joinville (1224-1317) inherited the office of seneschal of Champagne at a young age, and wrote "Life of Saint Louis" after having accompanied King Louis IX on his first crusade and later living as a friend in his court. These accounts, originally composed in Old French, are considered to be some of the most accurate portrayals of the Crusades, and give fascinating insight into the religious and political fervor that sparked centuries of brutal battles and the struggle for holy conquest.

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About the Author:

Jean de Joinville was a thirteenth-century medieval French chronicler. His most famous work is Life of St. Louis, a biography of Louis IX of France that chronicled the Seventh Crusade.

Geoffrey de Villehardouin was a soldier and historian who took part in, and wrote extensively on, the Fourth Crusade. His eyewitness account of the 1204 conquest of Constantinople is the earliest surviving French historical narrative.

Margaret R. B. Shaw is an author and translator whose work includes contributions to Chronicles of the Crusades by Jean de Joinville and Geffroy de Villehardouin and Scarlet and Black by Stendhal.

About this edition

• Publisher: Digireads.com
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1420934872
• ISBN 13: 9781420934878
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232