A Crusader's Death and Life in Acre

The 1266 Account-Inventory of Eudes of Nevers

Anne E. Lester, Laura K. Morreale (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

312 Seiten

2025
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
9781501779855 (ISBN)

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A Crusader's Death and Life in Acre uses five parchment rolls that inventoried the possessions of Eudes of Nevers, son of the duke of Burgundy, at his death in Acre in 1266 to open out a panorama of Christian crusader life. The contents of the rolls, or rouleaux, span from the pay rendered to knights and servants to the numerous possessions of a crusading nobleman. The inventory provides insight into the medieval Outremer even as it provokes questions about trade, diplomacy, remembrance, and the methodological challenges of evoking material objects in texts.

Anne E. Lester and Laura K. Morreale present the first complete modern French edition and English translation of the rouleaux along with seven crusade poems by Rutebeuf. In addition, A Crusader's Death and Life in Acre contains a wealth of scholarly commentary that addresses the composition of the rouleaux, the life and relationships of Eudes, and the culture of crusading in its material, written, devotional, and poetic forms.

Contributors: Sharon Farmer, Andrew Jotischky, Anne Latowsky, Richard A. Leson, Maureen C. Miller, Jonathan Rubin, Uri Zvi Shachar, and Caroline Smith

Anne E. Lester is John W. Baldwin and Jenny Jochens Associate Professor of Medieval History at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Creating Cistercian Nuns. Laura K. Morreale is the coeditor of The French of Outremer and the creator of several medieval digital projects, including the Oxford Outremer Map and the La Sfera Project.

Part 1: Account-Inventory of Eudes of Nevers
1. Introduction
2. Account-Inventory: Edition and Translation Rolls A–D
Part 2: Commentary
3. Crusading in the Mid-Thirteenth Century
4. French Acre: The Language and Landscapes of the Rouleaux
5. Outremer Subjects: A Crusader's Retinue
6. Outremer Objects: A Documentary Archeologyof Crusader Possessions
7. The Threaded Heart: Converted Objects and Return Journeys
Part 3: Contemporary Sources
8. Crusade Poems of Rutebeuf
9. Two Wills from Acre, 1267–1272
Part 4: Interpretations
10. The Landscapes of Acre
11. The Experience of Acre, ca. 1266
12. Textiles in Eudes of Nevers's Posthumous Inventory: A Meeting of East and West
13. Of Gems and Drinking Cups
14. The Material Culture of Devotion and Vestiture: Eudes of Nevers at Prayer
15. The Crusading Households of John of Joinville and Eudes of Nevers
16. Shared Things: Inventories of the Islamic World

Erscheinungsdatum	10.04.2025
Reihe/Serie	Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures
Zusatzinfo	2 b&w halftones, 41 color halftones, 2 maps, 1 chart - 41 Halftones, color - 1 Charts - 2 Maps - 2 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	Ithaca
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	907 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-13	9781501779855 / 9781501779855
Zustand	Neuware