Usamah ibn Munqidh (1095–1188)
Autore di An Arab-Syrian Gentleman and Warrior in the Period of the Crusades
Sull'Autore
Opere di Usamah ibn Munqidh
Opere correlate
Lapham's Quarterly - Lines of Work: Volume IV, Number 2, Spring 2011 (2011) — Collaboratore — 29 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1095-07-04
- Data di morte
- 1188-11-16
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Shaizar Emirate
- Nazione (per mappa)
- Syria
Utenti
Recensioni
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Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 12
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 374
- Popolarità
- #64,496
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 5
- ISBN
- 20
- Lingue
- 7
If you like fighting tales -- and I know a few of you do -- he gives, on a page or two pages, those both strange and true.
The Franks feature, but he isn't writing about them. If you're after an Arab source with views of Franks, it's perhaps more precious for not being self-consciously about Franks.
A treasure, and you can just dip in, a lucky dip, each tale is titled to whet your curiosity. I valued the real-life fighting incidents in Joinville's Crusade account, but that has only glimpses next to this.… (altro)