Caffaro, Genoa and the Twelfth-Century Crusades

Martin Hall, Jonathan Phillips, Professor Jonathan Phillips , Martin Hall (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

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Routledge
27 September 2013

Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Medieval history; Crusades

Series: Crusade Texts in Translation

This volume provides the first comprehensive English translation, with a substantial introduction and notes, of the writings of Caffaro of Genoa, as well as related texts and documents on Genoa and the crusades. The majority of early crusading historiography is from a northern European and clerical perspective. Here is a very different voice, one with a more secular, Mediterranean tone. To see the similarities and differences with the mainstream sources offers an exciting new dimension to our understanding of the reception of crusading ideas in the Mediterranean and, given Genoa’s prominence in the commercial world, can help to illuminate the complex and controversial relationship between holy war and financial gain.

Caffaro’s main composition, the ’Annals’ of Genoa, began with the First Crusade and extended down to 1163. It also covers the city’s dealings with the Papacy, the German Empire, Sicily, Muslim Spain, and Pisa, as well as the development of Genoa itself. Sections from Caffaro’s continuators take the story down to the Third Crusade.

Caffaro’s two other texts are exclusively about the crusades: ’The Liberation of the Cities of the East’ and ’The Capture of AlmerÃa and Tortosa’, while associated with him but of a later date is the ’Short History of Jerusalem’. Alongside these narratives are a number of charters and letters that relate to, and complement, the main texts. These relate to matters such as Genoese privileges in the Holy Land and form a valuable resource in their own right. Placed alongside Caffaro’s narratives they can show the blend of commercial energy, civic pride and religious conviction that were the basis of Genoese activity in the complex world of the medieval Mediterranean.

By: Martin Hall, Jonathan Phillips
Translated by: Professor Jonathan Phillips, Martin Hall (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Series edited by: Professor Malcolm Barber
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Volume: 24
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 1.400kg
ISBN: 9781409428602
ISBN 10: 1409428605
Series: Crusade Texts in Translation
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 27 September 2013
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Caffaro, Genoa and the Twelfth-Century Crusades

Jonathan Phillips is Professor of Crusading History at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK; Martin Hall is an Honorary Research Associate at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

Reviews for Caffaro, Genoa and the Twelfth-Century Crusades

'This will be of interest to students and scholars of the Crusades, of Genoa, of Byzantine-Genoese relations, and the history of Mediterranean trade, warfare, and diplomacy in the pivotal twelfth century. ... this represents another fine and useful addition to Ashgate's series, Crusade Texts in Translation. ' Comitatus 'Highly recommended.' Choice 'The quality of the translations is uniformly outstanding as was the process of selecting which documents to translate from the great mass of surviving Genoese charters, treaties, and political documents.' Speculum