Ambroise
Ambroise, sometimes Ambroise of Normandy,crusader. [2]
Life
The credit for detecting its value belongs to
Messina, in Cyprus, at the siege of Acre, and in the abortive campaign which followed the capture of that city.[2]
Commentary on his work
Ambroise is surprisingly accurate in his
biographer than as a historian of the Crusade in its broader aspects. Nonetheless he is an interesting primary source for the events of the years 1190–1192 in the Kingdom of Jerusalem.[2]
Books 2–6 of the Itinerarium Regis Ricardi, a Latin prose narrative of the same events apparently compiled by Richard, a canon of Holy Trinity, London, are closely related to Ambroise's poem. They were formerly sometimes regarded as the first-hand narrative on which Ambroise based his work, but that can no longer be maintained.[2]
History of the poem
The poem is known to us only through one Vatican manuscript, and long escaped the notice of historians.[2]
Published edition
- Ambroise, L´Estoire de la guerre sainte. Paris, 1897: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6517331f.r
- Ambroise, Itinerarium regis Ricardi. London, 1920: https://archive.org/details/itinerariumregis00richuoft
- Ambroise, The History of the Holy War, translated by Marianne Ailes, Boydell Press, 2003.
See also
Notes
- ISBN 90-04-18464-3.
- ^ . Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 798.
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