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The Conquest of Santarem and Goswin's Song of the Conquest of Alcacer do Sal

Editions and Translations of De expugnatione Scalabis and Gosuini de expugnatione Salaciae carmen

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Crusade Texts in Translation
The Conquest of Santarem and Goswin's Song of the Conquest of Alcacer do Sal
The Conquest of Santarem and Goswin's Song of the Conquest of Alcacer do Sal
  • Forfatter: Jonathan Wilson
  • Format: Pocket
  • Antall sider: 184
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • Serienavn: Crusade Texts in Translation
  • EAN: 9780367753825
  • Utgivelsesår: 2023
  • Bidragsyter: Wilson, Jonathan
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Achieved at the height of the Crusades, the Christian conquests of Santar¿in 1147 by King Afonso I, and of Alc¿r do Sal in 1217 by Portuguese forces and northern European warriors on their way by sea to Palestine, were crucial events in the creation of the independent kingdom of Portugal. The two texts presented here survive in their unique, thirteenth-century manuscript copies appended to a codex belonging to one of Europe''s most important monastic library collections accumulated in the Cistercian abbey of Alcoba¿ founded c. 1153 by Bernard of Clairvaux. Accompanied by comprehensive introductions and here translated into English for the first time, these extraordinary texts are based on eyewitness testimony of the conquests. They contain much detail for the military historian, including data on operational tactics and the ideology of Christian holy war in the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. Literary historians too will be delighted by the astonishing styles deployed, demon