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Book SynopsisThis is the first critical edition of the twelfth-century Latin epic poem, Historia Vie Hierosolimitane, in an authoritative Oxford Medieval Texts edition, with facing-page text and translation and detailed introduction and notes.
Trade Reviewvery welcome ... it makes more easily available the most substantial account of that expedition to have been written in Latin verse ... the text is a reminder that narratvie strategies and authorial preferences have an important bearing on how we are able to retrieve the crusade both as an historical event and as an historiographical phenomenon. The edition is excellently produced and presented, the translation is clear and readable, and the editorial apparatus is full, informative and learned ... Grocock and Siberry are to be congratulated on producing a very good edition. * Marcus Bull, History, January 2000 *
This edition and translation of one of the lesser-known narrative sources for the First Crusade, last edited in 1895, is very welcome, not least because it makes more easily available the most substantial account of that expedition to have been written in Latin verse. The edition is excellently produced and presented, the translation is clear and readable, and the editorial apparatus is full, informative and learned... Grocock and Siberry are to be congratulated on producing a very good edition. * Marcus Bull, History Vol.85 No.277 *
