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Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis, vol. 202
Magister Thadeus civis Neapolitanus
Excidii Aconis gestorum collectio; Ystoria de desolatione et conculcatione civitatis Acconensis et tocius terre sancte
R. B.C. Huygens (ed)
- Pages: 225 p.
- Size:155 x 245 mm
- Illustrations:1 b/w, 4 col.
- Language(s):Latin, English
- Publication Year:2004
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- ISBN: 978-2-503-05029-4
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« The new editions are thorough and match the high professional standard we have come to expect from this editor, and Huygens has provided a useful introduction […] and has succeeded in identifying numerous quotations, or allusions to, earlier authors. »
(Peter Edbury, in: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 56 (2005), p. 581)
« This is a magnificent and long-overdue addition to the body of edited crusade texts, and no scholar of the thirteenth-century Latin East, the crusades, or the military orders will want to be without it. »
(Paul Crawford, in: Speculum, 81 (2006), p. 208)
BIO
On 16 September 2022, Professor R.B.C Huygens, until 1997 professor of Medieval Latin at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands), passed away at the age of 90. What Professor Huygens has achieved as a text editor is generally acknowledged to be the nec plus ultra, to quote the motto printed on his obituary. With his passing a magister of the ars edendi has undoubtedly been taken from us.
Summary
The fall of Acre in May 1291 marked the end of Crusader domination in the Holy Land. The two main Latin sources, both written within months of the catastrophe, are the anonymous Excidium Aconis and the Ystoria de desolatione et conculcatione civitatis Acconensis et tocius terre sancte written by a certain magister Thadeus of Naples. The first text was edited by dom Martène in 1724, the second by Paul Riant in 1873. For several reasons both editions were hard to use, unreliable, and in urgent need of being made more easily available. In the present edition the texts have been reedited on a significantly enlarged manuscript basis and with full critical apparatuses, notes and indices.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Anonymus (medii aevi) — Excidii Aconis gestorum collectio — ed. R.B.C. Huygens
Capitula ad Magistri Thadei Neapolitani Ystoriam (tituli in margine positi) — Capitula ad Magistri Thadei Neapolitani Ystoriam (tituli in margine positi) — ed. R.B.C. Huygens
Thadeus Neapolitanus — Ystoria de desolatione et conculcatione civitatis Aconis et tocius terre sancte — ed. R.B.C. Huygens
