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Marino Sanudo Torsello : the book of the secrets of the faithful of the cross : liber secretorum fidelium crucis / Marino Sanudo Torsello ; translated by Peter Lock.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sanudo, Marino, approximately 1260-1343, author.
- Series:
- Crusade texts in translation ; Volume 21.
- Crusade Texts in Translation ; Volume 21
- Standardized Title:
- Liber secretorum fidelium crucis. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crusades--Early works to 1800.
- Crusades.
- Middle East--Description and travel.
- Middle East.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (486 p.)
- Other Title:
- Liber secretorum fidelium crucis
- Place of Publication:
- London : Routledge, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is the first full English translation of Marino Sanudo Torsello's Secreta fidelium Crucis, a piece of crusading propaganda following the fall of Acre in 1291, written between 1300 and 1321 and based on the translation edited by Jacques Bongars in 1611. With references to 13th-century Mediterranean history, especially Louis IX of France and Charles of Anjou, it contains a vast amount of cartographical, ethnographical, geographical and nautical information, with unique insights into events and personalities not only in Outremer, but in Western Europe.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Book of the Secrets of the Faithful of the Cross, that is both for the preservation of the faithful and for the conversion and destruction of the infidel: also for the recovery and retention of the Ho; 1 The Disposition and Preparation for the Recovery of the Holy Land; 2 The Ways and Means by Which the Holy Land Can be Recovered; 3 Keeping, Holding and Possessing the Holy Land of Promise; Index
- Notes:
- "Liber secretorum fidelium crucis."
- First published 2011 by Ashgate Publishing.
- Translated from the Latin.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4094-8210-3
- 1-317-10060-3
- 1-317-10059-X
- 1-315-59391-2
- 1-283-01549-8
- 9786613015495
- 1-4094-2160-0
- 9781315593913
- OCLC:
- 705536101
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