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table of contents
  1. List of Illustrations
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Abbreviations
  5. Note on Names, Places, and Currencies
  6. On the Text Editions
  7. Part I. The Account-Inventory of Eudes of Nevers
    1. 1. Introduction
      1. Material Outremer: Methods and Approaches
      2. The Texts: Form and Function
      3. The Chronology of the Rouleaux
    2. 2. Account-Inventory: Edition and Translation Rolls A–D
      1. Statement on Transcription and Translation
      2. Text Edition Account-Inventory of Eudes of Nevers
  8. Part II. Commentary
    1. 3. Crusading in the Mid-Thirteenth Century
    2. 4. French Acre: The Language and Landscapes of the Rouleaux
    3. 5. Outremer Subjects: A Crusader’s Retinue
    4. 6. Outremer Objects: A Documentary Archaeology of Crusader Possessions
    5. 7. The Threaded Heart: Converted Objects and Return Journeys
  9. Part III. Contemporary Sources
    1. 8. Crusade Poems of Rutebeuf
      1. Rutebeuf, Crusade Poet and Social Critic
      2. Poems
      3. The Lament for My Lord Geoffrey of Sergines (La complainte de monseigneur Joffroi de Sergines)
      4. The Complaint of Constantinople (La complainte de Coustantinoble)
      5. The Complaint of Outremer (La complainte doutremeir)
      6. The Lament for Count Eudes of Nevers (La complainte dou conte Hue de Nevers)
      7. The Poem of the Route to Tunis (Li diz de la voie de Tunes)
      8. The Disputation between the Crusader and the Noncrusader (La desputizons dou croisie et dou descroizie)
      9. The New Complaint of Outremer (La nouvele complainte doutremeir)
    2. 9. Two Wills from Acre, 1267–1272
      1. The Will of Sir Hugh de Neville (1267)
      2. The Will of Prince Edward I of England (1272)
  10. Part IV. Interpretations
    1. 10. The Landscapes of Acre
    2. 11. The Experience of Acre, ca. 1266
    3. 12. Textiles in Eudes of Nevers’s Posthumous Inventory: A Meeting of East and West
    4. 13. Of Gems and Drinking Cups
    5. 14. The Material Culture of Devotion and Vestiture: Eudes of Nevers at Prayer
    6. 15. The Crusading Households of John of Joinville and Eudes of Nevers
    7. 16. Shared Things: Inventories of the Islamic World
  11. Appendix: Genealogy of Eudes of Nevers
  12. Glossary
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index
  15. Color Insert

Copyright © 2025 by Anne E. Lester and Laura K. Morreale

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. Visit our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu.

First published 2025 by Cornell University Press

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Lester, Anne E., 1974– author. | Morreale, Laura K., author.

Title: A crusader's death and life in Acre : the 1266 account-inventory of Eudes of Nevers / Anne E. Lester and Laura K. Morreale.

Other titles: 1266 account-inventory of Eudes of Nevers

Description: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2025. | Series: Medieval societies, religions, and cultures | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2024029631 (print) | LCCN 2024029632 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501779855 (paperback) | ISBN 9781501779862 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501779879 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Eudes, of Nevers, 1230–1266. | Civilization, Medieval. | Crusades—13th–15th centuries.

Classification: LCC CB355 .L47 2025 (print) | LCC CB355 (ebook) | DDC 909.07—dc23/eng/20241031

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024029631

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024029632

Cover art: Coffret of the Blessed John of Montmirail or the Longpont Coffret, Limoges, ca. 1270 (or 1242?). Treasury of the Abbey of Longpont (Aisne), France. Photo: Thierry Lefébure, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire général, Département de l’Aisne, AGIR-Picardie.

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Copyright © 2025 by Anne E. Lester and Laura K. Morreale, All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. Visit our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu.
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