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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

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Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures

Edited by M. Cecilia Gaposchkin and Anne E. Lester

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