Byzantines and Crusaders in Non-Greek Sources, 1025-1204 (Proceedings of the British Academy 132)

455 Pages·2008·6.04 MB·English

by  Mary Whitby

PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY 132
BYZANTINES AND CRUSADERS
NON-GREEK SOURCES
1025-1204
Edited by
MARY WHITBY
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Contents
Notes on Contributors
Abbreviations
Preface
Maps
Introduction
AVERIL CAMERON
PBW: the Project and the Colloquium
1.
1
MICHAEL JEFFREYS
2. Pilgrims and Crusaders in Western Latin Sources 5
JONATHAN RILEY-SMITH
3. Crusader Sources from the Near East (1099-1204) 23
PETER EDBURY
4. Latin Sources and Byzantine Prosopography: Genoa,
Venice, Pisa and Barcelona
39
MICHEL BALARD
5. The Venetian Chronicles and Archives as Sources for the
History of Byzantium and the Crusades (992-1204)
59
MICHAEL ANGOLD
Venice: A Bibliography
86
MICHAEL ANGOLD AND MICHEL BALARD
6. The South Italian Sources 95
VERA VON FALKENHAUSEN
7. Visitors from North-Western Europe to Byzantium.
Vernacular Sources: Problems and Perspectives
123
KRIJNIE CIGGAAR
8. Slavonic Sources 157
SIMON FRANKLIN
9. Georgian Sources 183
STEPHEN H. RAPP Jr.
Contents
vi
10. Armenian Sources
221
TIM GREENWOOD
11. Syriac Historiographical Sources
253
WITOLD WITAKOWSKI
12. Sources in Arabic
283
CAROLE HILLENBRAND
13. Arabic Sources for Sicily
341
JEREMY JOHNS
14. Jewish Sources
361
NICHOLAS DE LANGE
Jewish Sources: A Bibliography
370
JOSHUA HOLO
Index
383
Notes on Contributors
Michael Angold is Professor Emeritus of Byzantine History at the University
of Edinburgh.
Michel Balard is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Paris 1
Pantheon-Sorbonne and president of the Society for the Study of the
Crusades and the Latin east.
Averil Cameron is Warden of Keble College, Oxford and former chair of the
committee of the Prosopography of the Byzantine World project.
Krijnie Ciggaar is actively engaged in publishing on relations between
Byzantium and western Europe; she is currently working in particular on
Antioch during the period 969-1268.
Nicholas de Lange is Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the
University of Cambridge and editor of the Bulletin of Judaeo-Greek Studies.
Peter Edbury is a professor in the Cardiff School of History and
Archaeology, University of Cardiff.
Simon Franklin is Professor of Slavonic Studies at the University of
Cambridge and a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge.
Tim Greenwood is Lecturer in Byzantine and Eastern Christian Studies in the
Department of Mediaeval History, University of St Andrews.
Carole Hillenbrand is Professor of Islamic History at the University of
Edinburgh.
Joshua Holo is Associate Professor of Jewish History at the Hebrew Union
College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles, California.
Michael Jeffreys is Research Manager for the Prosopography of the
Byzantine World project; until 2000 he was Professor of Modern Greek at the
University of Sydney.
viii Notes on Contributors
Jeremy Johns is Director of the Khalili Research Centre for the Art and
Material Culture of the Middle East, and Lecturer in Islamic Archaeology in
the Oriental Institute, University of Oxford.
Stephen H. Rapp Jr. is Associate Professor of Medieval Eurasian and World
History at Georgia State University, Atlanta, and is director of the Program
in World History and Cultures.
Jonathan Riley-Smith is the recently retired Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical
History, University of Cambridge.
Vera von Falkenhausen is Professor of Byzantine History at the University di
Roma Tor Vergata.
Witold Witakowski is Associate Professor at the Institute of Linguistics and
Philology, University of Uppsala, Sweden; his research interests are in the
fields of Semitic studies, especially Syriac.
Abbreviations
AI Annales islamologigues
AOH Acta Orientalia Hungarica
ASI Archivio storico italiano
BEO Bulletin des etudes orientales
BF Byzantinische Forschungen
BHG Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca
BHL Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina
BIFA 0 Bulletin de l'Institut francais d'archeologie orientale
du Caire
BJGS Bulletin of Judaeo-Greek Studies
BMGS Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
BSOAS Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African
Studies
BZ Byzantinische Zeitschrift
Byz Byzantion
CCCM Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaevalis
CM Classica et Mediaevalia
CSCO Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium
CSCO, SS Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium,
Scriptores Syri
DOP Dumbarton Oaks Papers
EHR English Historical Review
HUCA Hebrew Union College Annual
JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society
JESHO Journal of the Economic and Social History of the
Orient
JHS Journal of Hellenic Studies
JJS Journal of Jewish Studies
JMH Journal of Medieval History
JOB Jahrbuch der Osterreichischen Byzantinistik
JQR Jewish Quarterly Review
JRAS Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
JSAI Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam
JSS Journal of Semitic Studies
MGH Monumenta Germaniae Historica, ed. G.H. Pertz
and others (Hanover, Weimar, Stuttgart and Cologne,
1826-)
x Abbreviations
MGHS Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores,
38 vols. so far (1826-)
MGHS Scriptores Rerum Germanicarum inusum scholarum
in usum scholarum separatim editi, 75 vols. so far (1839-)
MGHS rer. Germ. n.s. Scriptores Rerum Germanicarum. Nova series,
18
vols. so far (1922-)
MGWJ Monatsschrift fiir Geschichte and Wissenschaft des
Judenturns
PAAJR Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish
Research
PBW Prosopography of the Byzantine World
PG Patrologia Graeca
PL Patrologia Latina
PO Patrologia Orientalis
REA Revue des etudes armeniennes
REB Revue des etudes byzantines
REI Revue des etudes islarniques
REJ
Revue des etudes juives
RHC Recueil des historiens des croisades
RHC Oc Recueil des historiens des croisades. Historiens
occidentaux, ed. Academie des Inscriptions
et
Belles-Lettres, 5 vols. (Paris, 1844-95)
RHGF Recueil des historiens des Guides et de la France, ed.
M. Bouquet and M.-J.-J. Brial, 24 vols. (Paris,
1738-1904)
RRH R. Rohricht, ed., Regesta Regni Hierosolymitani
(MXCVII-MCCXCI) (Innsbruck, 1893; addita-
mentum 1904; repr. New York, 1960)
ROL Revue de /'Orient latin
RSBN Rivista di studi bizantini e neoellenici
RSI Rivista storica italiana
UEAI Union europeenne des Arabisants et Islarnisants
VV Vizantiiskii vremmennik
WZKM Wiener Zeitschrift fiir die Kunde des Morgenlandes
Preface
IT HAS BEEN A PLEASURE AND A PRIVILEGE to edit this volume. I have learned
a great deal from the scholars who have contributed and have been assisted
by their courteous and patient discussion with a non-specialist on numerous
points of detail. I would particularly like to single out Jeremy Johns who
produced the chapter on Arabic sources for Sicily with great efficiency at
extremely short notice. I have enjoyed the support of stalwart colleagues on
the Prosopography of the Byzantine World project:* the original idea for this
book came from Michael Jeffreys, and he and Tassos Papacostas have always
been ready to listen and discuss issues. Tassos has also cheerfully provided a
great deal of advice and practical help; it was he who found the striking cover
image. At an earlier stage their predecessors, John Martindale and Dion
Smythe were my kindly mystagogues in the art of prosopography. Harold
Short, Director of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's
College London, under whose aegis the prosopography project falls, has been
consistently supportive, characteristically optimistic and always ready with a
practical suggestion. In particular he offered the services of the Centre for
work on the maps and put me in touch with Martyn Jessop who began the
task. The final artwork was produced by Hafed Walda, who collaborated
enthusiastically with Tassos to produce excellent clear results from diverse
and sometimes difficult raw materials. James Rivington, Publications Officer
at the British Academy, has been upbeat and imaginative, while Colin
Baldwin has been a patient copy-editor. I am grateful to Tony Eastmond
for advice on a cover image, to Alicia Correa for taking on the task of com-
piling the index, and to George Molyneaux for meticulous checking of it. My
own work has been partly funded by a British Academy Larger Research
Grant, one of many debts over a long period that the British prosopo-
graphy project owes to the Academy. Finally I would like to pay tribute to
Averil Cameron for firm but generous leadership, common sense and
extraordinary humanity.
Mary Whitby
October 2006
*http://www.pbw.kcl.ac.uk