Caffaro, Genoa and the Twelfth-Century Crusades
Caffaro, Genoa and the Twelfth-Century Crusades This volume provides the first comprehensive English translation, with a substantial introduction and notes, of the writings of Caffaro of Genoa, as…
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Caffaro, Genoa and the Twelfth-Century Crusades
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. Here is a very different voice, one with a more secular, Mediterranean tone. The majority of early crusading historiography is from a northern European and clerical perspective.
Caffaro's main composition, the 'Annals' of Genoa, began with the First Crusade and extended down to 1163. 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. It also covers the city's dealings with the Papacy, the German
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