Law and History in the Latin East

This second collection of papers by Peter Edbury focuses primarily on literature composed in the Latin East. The legal treatises from Jerusalem, Cyprus and Antioch have long been recognized as providing insights into the juridical and social history of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The studies on historical literature are chiefly concerned with vernacular texts, most notably the Old French translation of William of Tyre and its Continuations. Other papers are concerned with the narrative traditions that furnish a significant part of our knowledge of Lusignan Cyprus.