Caffaro, Genoa and the Twelfth-Century Crusades

Martin Hall, Jonathan Phillips

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781409428602
• eBook ISBN: 9781317170198
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: European Medieval History
• Index: History

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. The majority of early crusading historiography is from a northern European and clerical perspective. Here is a very different voice, one with a more secular, Mediterranean tone. 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. Caffaro's main composition, the 'Annals' of Genoa, began with the First Crusade and extended down to 1163. It also covers the city's dealings with the Papacy, the German Empire, Sicily, Muslim Spain, and Pisa, as well as the development of Genoa itself. Sections from Caffaro's continuators take the story down to the Third Crusade. Caffaro's two other texts are exclusively about the crusades: 'The Liberation of the Cities of the East' and 'The Capture of Almería and Tortosa', while associated with him but of a later date is the 'Short History of Jerusalem'. Alongside these narratives are a number of charters and letters that relate to, and complement, the main texts. These relate to matters such as Genoese privileges in the Holy Land and form a valuable resource in their own right. Placed alongside Caffaro's narratives they can show the blend of commercial energy, civic pride and religious conviction that were the basis of Genoese activity in the complex world of the medieval Mediterranean.

Index

All index entries shown here correspond to the page numbers within the printed edition only. Within this digital format these page numbers allow for cross referencing only.

Note: The index uses word-by-word rather than letter-by-letter order. Prefixes such as Al- and name elements such as de, di and della are ignored in the alphabetical ordering.

‘Abd al-Mu’min, caliph 15, 18, 66 n.76, 91, 178

Abu Yusuf Ya’qub al-Mansur (1184–99; caliph) 150 n.59

Aço de San Salvatore 218

Aço de Valentia 218

Acre:

capture by Saladin (1187) 26, 145, 161, 163, 165, 214

Crusader capture (1104) 11, 35, 57, 122, 123, 151–52, 173–74

Crusader capture (1191) 28, 149, 162, 217

and Embriaci clan 193–94

and Genoese concessions 27, 29, 35, 78, 123, 152, 174–75, 210, 220–21, 223–24

Muslim capture (1291) 41, 42

Adalardo, cardinal-priest 146

Adhémar, bishop of Le Puy 33, 108–109 n.7, 112, 113–15

Al-Adid, Fatimid caliph (1160–71) 155 n.38

Adrian IV, pope (1154–59) 23–24, 29, 76–78, 85–86

Adrianus, bishop 168

Al-Afdal Shahanshah (Fatimid vizier 1094–1121) 34, 53 n.21, 115 n.38

Agnes of Courtenay (wife of Reynald of Sidon, mother of Baldwin IV) 154, 166 n.100

Aimero (Piedmontese fort), capture (1141) 67

Aimery of Limoges, patriarch of Antioch (1140–93) 78

Aimery of Lusignan, king of Cyprus (d. 1205) 154 n.37, 167, 220–21

Albaronum (town) 204

Alberic (marshal of France) 222

Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, Chronicon 120 n.62

Alberico 82

Albert of Aachen, Historia Ierosolimitana 30, 33, 50 n.9, 51 n.10, 53 n.21, 124 n.82, 153 n.17

Alberto, marchio of Gavi 59

Albertone di Alsaldo Ite (consul) 63–64

Alexander III, pope (1159–81) 4

and anti-pope Victor IV 21–22, 24, 85–89, 143

and Byzantin...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• List of Figures
• List of Texts and Documents
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction: Caffaro of Genoa and the Crusades
• Caffaro’s ‘Annals’ of Genoa, 1099–1163
• Confidential Account of the Genoese Delegation to Rome, 1121
• The Liberation of the Cities of the East
• The History of the Capture of Almería and Tortosa
• Extracts from the Genoese ‘Annals’ after Caffaro
• A Short History of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
• Selected Documents
• Bibliography
• Index