Chronicles and Memorials of the Reign of Richard I Stubbs Paperback Volume 1

Chronicles and Memorials of the Reign of Richard IAuthor(s): William Stubbs\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108048057, 978-1108048057\nSynopsis\nWilliam Stubbs [tel] was an important constitutional medievalist and Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford. This two-volume work, published in 18645, was the first of his nineteen editorial contributions to the Rolls Series. It chronicles foreign diplomacy and church affairs during the reign of Richard I, whom Stubbs regarded with disdain. Covering the period 11902 especially, Volume 1 presents the most comprehensive contemporary account of the Third Crusade. Transcribed from three separate manuscripts of an early thirteenth-century narrative compiled by Richard de Templo, Canon and Prior of Holy Trinity, London, the work is given in the original Latin. It also includes an eyewitness account of the siege and capture of Lisbon in 1147, allowing.