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1 online resource |
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Rulers of the Latin East |
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Rulers of the Latin East.
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| Contents |
First crusader -- Nicaea to Edessa -- Count of Edessa -- Crisis in Jerusalem, 1100 -- King of Jerusalem -- Ecclesiastical affairs -- The conquest of the littoral -- Fighting the Saracens -- The army, administration, and allies -- Last years and legacy |
| Summary |
"Baldwin of Boulogne was born the youngest of three sons and marked out for a clerical career, yet in turn he became a First Crusader, first Latin count of Edessa and the founder of the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem. Nevertheless, remarkably, he has never been the subject of a full-length biography. This study examines in detail the stages of Baldwin's career, returning to the contemporary evidence to discover the qualities that enabled him not only to succeed his brother as ruler in 1100 but to maintain and expand the new kingdom of Jerusalem through the next eighteen years in the face of aggression from Muslim enemies and rivalry from fellow crusaders"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Susan B. Edgington is a teaching and research fellow at Queen Mary University of London. She has written extensively on many aspects of the crusades, but it is her close familiarity with the Latin sources for the period in question, 1095-1118, that uniquely qualifies her to write this biography. She is the editor and translator of Albert of Aachen's Historia Ierosolimitana (Oxford, 2007); translator (with Thomas S. Asbridge) of Walter the Chancellor's The Antiochene Wars (Aldershot, 1999); (with Carol Sweetenham) of The Chanson d'Antioche (Farnham, 2011); and (with Steven Biddlecombe) of Badric of Bourgueil's History of the Jerusalemites (Woodbridge, forthcoming). Her critical comparison of the relationship of Bartolf of Nangis' Gesta Francorum Iherusalem expugnantium with the chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres (Crusades 13, 2014) will lead to a new edition and translation of this important source |
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Print version record |
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Baldwin I, King of Jerusalem, -1118.
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Baldwin I, King of Jerusalem, -1118 fast |
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Crusades -- First, 1096-1099 -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
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HISTORY -- Medieval.
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Crusades
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Kings and rulers
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Jerusalem -- Kings and rulers -- Biography
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Jerusalem -- History -- Latin Kingdom, 1099-1244.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069906
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Middle East -- Jerusalem
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Biographies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317176404 |
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1317176405 |
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9781317176411 |
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1317176413 |
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9781317176398 |
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1317176391 |
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9781315568645 |
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1315568640 |
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