Deeds Done Beyond the Sea Essays on William of Tyre, Cyprus and the Military Orders presented to Peter Edbury

This volume celebrates Peter Edbury’s career by bringing together seventeen essays by colleagues, former students and friends which focus on three of his major research interests: the great historian of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, William of Tyre, and his Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum and its continuations; medieval Cyprus, in particular under the Lusignans; and the Military Orders in the Middle Ages. All based on original research, the contributions to this volume include new work on manuscripts, ranging from a Hospitaller rental document of the twelfth century to a seventeenth-century manuscript of Cypriot interest; studies of language and terminology in William of Tyre’s chronicle and its continuations; thematic surveys; legal and commercial investigations pertaining to Cyprus; aspects of memorialization, and biographical studies. These contributions are bracketed by a foreword written by Peter Edbury’s PhD supervisor, Jonathan Riley-Smith, and an appreciation of Peter’s own publications by Christopher Tyerman.

Part I William of Tyre; Chapter 1 Some New Light on the Composition Process of William of Tyre’s Historia, Benjamin Z.Kedar; Chapter 2 William of Tyre’s Attitude towards Islam, NicholasMorton; Chapter 3 Biblical Quotations and Formulaic Language in the Chronicle of William of Tyre, Alan V.Murray; Chapter 4 William of Tyre and the First Rulers of the Latin Principality of Antioch, ThomasAsbridge; Chapter 5 Differing Views of Renaud de Châtillon, Philip D.Handyside; Chapter 6 Re-translating William of Tyre, Helen J.Nicholson; Chapter 7 Saladin, from Memory towards Myth in the Continuations, JohnFrance; Chapter 8 Holy War and Kingship in Fifteenth-century Hungary, NormanHousley; Part II Cyprus; Chapter 9 Cypriot Gold Thread in Late Medieval Silk Weaving and Embroidery, DavidJacoby; Chapter 10 A New Manuscript of Leontios Makhairas’s Chronicle of the ‘Sweet Land of Cyprus’, AngelNicolaou-Konnari; Chapter 11 Animals and the Law, NicholasCoureas; Chapter 12 Amanieu Son of Bernard, Count of Astarac, Croisé Manqué? Deconstructing the Myth of an Eighteenth-century Crusader, MichalisOlympios; Chapter 13 Queen Plaisance of Cyprus and the Bulla Cypria, ChrisSchabel; Part III The Military Orders; Chapter 14 Gregory VII and the Idea of a Military-Religious Order, Paul F.Crawford; Chapter 15 A Rental of Hospitaller Properties in Twelfth-century Jerusalem, DenysPringle; Chapter 16 Afonso of Portugal, Master of the Hospital: 1202/3–1206, AnthonyLuttrell; Chapter 17 The Identity of the Order of St John of Jerusalem in Portugal, Paula PintoCosta; Part IV Afterword; Chapter 18 Peter Edbury as an Historian, ChristopherTyerman;

Susan B. Edgington is a Senior Research Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London, UK; Helen Nicholson is Professor of Medieval History at Cardiff University, Wales, UK.