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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

Index

Maps and tables are indicated by m and t following page numbers. The insert figures are indicated by “insert” and their figure number.

Account-Inventory: Chazaud as editor of, 6n5, 14, 16–17, 92; chronology of, 16–22, 20t; currencies used in, 21, 23, 62, 62n22, 69; form and function of, 13–16, insert 1–7; French language used for, 3, 15, 15n35, 66–71, 70n20, 85; knightly narrative style in, 70–71; lack of scholarly attention given to, 6; literary qualities of, 12–13; as living document, 8, 62, 62n21; materiality approach to, 9–13, 9nn14–15, 17n41; memorial and emotive qualities of, 12, 12nn27–28; Outremer provenance of, 66–71, 91; rolls in order of size, 25, 25f, insert 1; transcription and translation conventions, 17n40, 23–24; visibility of Acre within, 63–69, 65m, 91–92. See also Roll A; Roll B; Roll C; Roll D

Acre: building projects in, 201; charitable landscape of, 64n3; cultural diversity in, 198, 201–3; economic significance of, 191, 192, 200; fall of (1291), 5, 119, 195, 199; fortifications of, 192, 194, 200; as gateway to Holy Land, 229; graphic practices in, 66–67, 66n9, 67n12; hospitals in, 64, 195–97; housing in, 192–93; intellectual exchange in, 203–4; knights stationed in, 60, 60n13, 81, 126n56; landscape and topography of, 191–97, 193n7; money for defense of, 232n14; painting in, 218n15; paradoxes in, 204–5; pilgrimage routes through, 199; religious institutions of, 64–66, 65m, 195–96, 204; Rutebeuf’s “The Complaint of Acre,” insert 32; seneschal of, 60, 60n16; stipendarii in, 60, 60n13, 81; Templar and Hospitaller compounds in, 180nn17–18, 193, 200; textiles in, 206, 206n1; translators in, 204, 204n29; visibility within Account-Inventory, 63–69, 65m, 91–92; War of St. Sabas in, 194, 202, 202n17; western-oriented institutions in, 67, 67n10

Agnes of Dampierre (sister-in-law of Eudes), 77

Albert of Vercelli, 197

Alphonse of Poitiers, 135, 141, 147

Andrew (saint), 151n114

annominatio (rhetorical device), 115, 174n158

Aragon, crusade of (1285), 26n5

Arnaut, William, 87

‘Atlit Castle. See Château Pèlerin

Ayyubid dynasty, 220, 238

Baldwin II (king of Jerusalem), 58, 58n4, 59n7, 77–78, 196

Baldwin IV (king of Jerusalem), 196

baptism, 98, 98n32, 224n5

Barons’ Crusade (1239), 57, 58n3, 85

Bastin, Julia, 114–15, 123n42, 138n85, 158n127, 170nn146–47

battles. See specific names of battles

Baume, Hugh de la, 87, 87n68, 107

Baybars (Mamluk sultan), 46n72, 58, 82, 156, 191, 194, 198–99, 238

Beam, Amanda, 182n33

Beatrice of Champagne (stepmother of Eudes), 21, 21n9

beavers, 43n63, 94, 94n12, 98–99, 212, 227, insert 22

Bek, Anthony, 185, 187

Benedictines, 195–96

bequests: charitable, 61, 178, 222, 242; clothing, 18, 180n16, 181nn19–20, 181nn22–27; delivery of, 44n69, 84, 104, 215–16, 216n4, 219; on dorsal of Roll B and Roll C, 18, 101–5, 103f; to hospitals, 18, 64, 103, 180–81, 181nn19–20, 196, 197; knightly equipment, 235; public performance of, 101; to religious houses, 64, 195–96, 204, 235; rings, 18, 71, 102–4, 182, 215–16, 219, 233–35, 233n16, 234n25

Béraud, Thomas, 30–31n24, 89n77, 188

Bese, Jehan de, 88

bestiaries, 94, insert 22

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 209

Boron, Robert de, insert 15, insert 26

Bougre, Robert le, 134n73

Brabant, Beatrix de, 221n25

Brabant, Henri de, 88

Broce, Pierre de la, 79n21

Brothers of the Penitence of Jesus Christ (Friars of the Sack), 181n24, 196

Brown, Bill, 12n26

buckram (boqueranz), 41n54, 66, 203, 206–10

Burchard of Mount Sion, 199

Burnell, Robert, 187

Byzantium. See Constantinople

Cairo Geniza, 97n28, 240n8

camelin, 40n52, 43n65, 66, 99, 203, 211, 211n21, 227–28

cameos, 92, 102–3, 216, 233

camlet (camelot), 43n65, 93, 206–7, 210–11, 210–11nn18–19

Canale, Martino da, 124n48

Carmelites, 46n72, 181, 181n23, 196

Carpine, Giovanni di Pian di, 207–10

cendal silk, 41n56, 43–44n67, 207, 211–14, 227–28

Champenois knights, 26n2, 75, 99n36

Chananians, 140n89

chansons de geste, 36–37n38, 71, 130n59

Chantenai, Gui de, 26n5, 86–88, 102, 221

Chantenai, Hervé de, 86–88, 102

“La Chantepleure” (poem), 134n73

chapels: in Acre, 98n31, 195, 199; for crusading households, 7, 223–28; decor for, 209, 216, 218, 223–24, 224n3; Érard of Vallery and, 80, 82, 93n5; liturgical furnishings for, 97–98, 224–28, 224n5, 225n9; portable, 82, 97, 97–98n29, 223n2, 224, 225

chaplains, 85–86, 98, 103, 178, 224, 226, 230

Charles of Anjou: campaigns in Italy, 59, 156; Érard of Vallery and, 77, 83, 141; Hohenstaufen heirs and, 75, 135; marriage of, 61, 72, 83, 222; Princedom of Achaea and, 59n7

Charles II of Anjou, 222

Château Pèlerin (Israel), 66, 69, 82, 82n38, 95, 95n17, 193, 198

Chaworth, Payn de, 185, 187

Chazaud, A.-M., 6n5, 14–17, 15n35, 32–33n33, 41n57, 92, 102nn48–49

chessboards, 107, 236, insert 30

Chiara of Montefalco, 108n10

chivalry (chevalerie), 8, 71, 74, 120, 128, 132n67, 141

Christianity and Christians: baptism, 98, 98n32, 224n5; chaplains and, 85–86, 224, 226, 230; conversion to Christianity, 98, 98n32; criticisms by Rutebeuf, 154n120; devotions, 62, 85, 94n12, 98, 109, 119, 197, 223–28; estate inventories of, 237; Eucharist, 98, 220, 224–25, 224n5, 227–28; Haram al-Sharif documents and, 243; Mass, 82, 85, 97–98, 98n31, 224–28, 224n5, 232; in Outremer, 5, 8; priests, 85, 97, 119, 192, 197, 224, 226, 232; vestments, 18, 98, 98n30, 100, 101n45, 224–28, 224n4, 227n12. See also chapels; crusades

Church, Stephen, 234, 234n21

Cistercians, 36n37, 89, 91, 133n70, 195, 220

Cîteaux monastery (Burgundy), 36n37, 89, 91, 91n1, 109, 109n12, 141

Claresses, 195, 195n17

Clemence (queen of Hungary), 213

Clement IV (pope), 58, 59, 88, 135, 227

clerks, 62, 69, 84–86, 178, 182, 192, 227–28, 230

Clifford, Roger de, 185, 187

clothing: appraisal of value, 18, 99–100; bequeathed, 18, 180n16, 181nn19–20, 181nn22–27; embroidered, 241; of Eudes of Nevers, 98–99, 227–28; of Franciscans, 124n49, 133n70; fur used for, 29n17, 40–41n53, 98–99, 227, 233, 243, insert 15, insert 21; houppelandes, 43n64, 99, 99n39; of Louis IX, 99, 99n36; as portable stores of wealth, 99. See also textiles; vestments

Coeur, Jacques, 210

coffrets, 40n48, 221, insert 25

complaintes (laments), 71, 74, 120. See also Rutebeuf

conduit (poetic genre), 155n123

Constantinople: fall to crusaders (1204), 128, 214; fall to Greeks (1261), 59n7, 119, 128; gifts to empress of, 232–33; Latin Empire of, 3; objects looted from, 218; recovery of, 77; Rutebeuf’s “The Complaint of Constantinople,” 128–34; textile production in, 214

copes (liturgical cloaks), 226–27, 226n11

Copin, 86, 88, 102, 221

copyists, 242–43, 243n19

Cordeliers. See Franciscans

courtly conduct, 8, 120, 121n39

courtoisie, 71, 120, 121n39, 123, 123n44, 125, 147

crossbowmen, 86, 87n62, 230, 232, 232n14

crusade poems. See Rutebeuf

Crusader States. See Outremer

crusades: Andrew as patron saint of, 151n114; Barons’ (1239), 57, 58n3, 85; Fifth (1217–21), 57, 220; First (1095–99), 3, 7, 118, 139n86, 140n88; Fourth (1202–4), 3–4, 86n59, 220; independent, 59, 59n8, 229, 229n1; Louis IX and, 57–60, 58n3, 59n7, 76–78, 119, 122, 147, 156, 196, 229, 231; religious motivations for, 7, 7n10, 223; renewed call for, 58, 58n6; in romance texts, 8n13; Third (1189–92), 57, 91n1, 180n16, 197, 220; Tunis (1270), 59, 72, 78, 115, 118–20, 147, 147n104, 156. See also knights

crusade vows, 58, 135, 141, 143n97, 147, 151n116, 156, 177, 220n21, 220n23, 229

crusading households: chapels for, 7, 223–28; as masculine spaces, 97, 221; material standards of living for, 193; members of, 7, 86–90, 218, 229–33, 232n13; possessions in, 7–8, 232–36

cups. See drinking cups

currencies, 33–34n35, 53n80, 62, 62n22, 66, 69, insert 8–12

currency changers, 29n16, 32n31

DALME (Documentary Archaeology of Late Medieval Europe) database, 6n5, 24, 62n21

d’Artier, Jean, 83

d’Avezac de Castera-Macaya, Marie-Armand, 210, 210n16

Demurger, Alain, 82n40

Desrosiers, Sophie, 213

devotions, 62, 85, 94n12, 98, 109, 119, 197, 223–28

Diepe, Henri de, 88

Dijon, Jehan de, 95, 95n15

al-Dīn al-Ḥazrajī (judge), 240

dit (poetic genre), 148n106

documentary archaeology, 11, 11n23, 91–105

Documentary Archaeology of Late Medieval Europe (DALME) database, 6n5, 24, 62n21

Dominicans, 132n66, 133n70, 135, 181, 181n25, 196, 204

dress. See clothing

drinking cups: ancient typology of, 217, insert 16; of Eudes, 84, 93, 107–8, 216–22; heraldic decorations on, 221, 221n25; liturgical, 97, 224n5, 225; Resafa cup, 219–20, 219–20nn20–21, 222, insert 27

Dufournet, Jean, 118–19n33

Edmond (earl of March), 234

Edward I (king of England), 61n20, 79, 167n139, 176, 184–88

Edward II (king of England), 185

Egypt: Ayyubid rule in, 238; Cairo Geniza, 97n28, 240n8; crusades in, 229, 231; Louis IX’s treaty with Muslims in, 131n64; Mamluk rule in, 119, 238; textile production in, 214

Eleanor of Castile, 184, 187–88

embalming practices, 61, 89, 108–9, 108n10, 141

embroidery: clothing and, 241; gold for, 36n37, 227, 228, 236; quilts and, 209, 243; vestments and, 227, 227n12, 228; wall hangings and, 224, 224n3

Enguerrand II of Boves, 220, 220n21

Enguerrand III of Coucy, 133n68, 220

Enguerrand IV of Coucy, 145n102

enslaved persons, 242, 243

Érard of Nanteuil, 59, 59n11, 75

Érard of Vallery: at Battle of Tagliacozzo, 77, 77n12; bequests made to, 79–80, 93n5, 102–3; as Champenois knight, 75; as constable of Champagne, 77–78, 77n13, 78nn15–16; death of, 141n91; drinking cup and, 221; Eudes’s possessions purchased by, 104, 107; as executor for Eudes, 16, 61, 74, 141; family background, 75–77; French language used by, 15, 68n15; in-kind payment made to, 218–19; Louis IX and, 75–78; marriage and children, 78–79; as partner in Eudes’s crusade, 59, 75, 231; Philip III and, 75n4, 79; poetic portrait by Rutebeuf, 74, 80; seal of, 79n26, insert 14; tokens of Eudes received by, 233; transfer of funds and loans by, 60, 61n18, 77; will of, 78, 79, 79n26

escrin (box for relics), 36n37, 89, 108–9, insert 24

estate inventories, 237, 240–43

Étienne le Clerc, 84–85, 86n59, 103

Eucharist, 98, 220, 224–25, 224n5, 227–28

Eudes III of Burgundy (grandfather of Eudes), 57

Eudes of Nevers: Acre as experienced by, 198–205; books of, 79–80, 80n28; chapel of, 80, 82, 97–98, 98n31, 223–28, 223n2, 224n5; clothing of, 98–99, 227–28; coat of arms, 220–21, 221n24; crusade vow taken by, 220n23, 229; crusading household of, 86–90, 97, 193, 223–24, 229–36; death of (1266), 3, 16–18, 61, 104, 175; French language used by, 16, 16n37; genealogy of, 21n49, 57–58, 57n1, 246; heart embalming and burial at Cîteaux, 36n37, 89, 91, 91n1, 108–9, 109nn12–13, 141; as independent crusader, 59, 229; interest in Eastern cultures, 203; knightly equipment of, 233–36; miracles reported at tomb of, 101; poetic portrait by Rutebeuf, 74, 80; Rutebeuf’s “The Lament for Count Eudes of Nevers,” 39n46, 80, 106, 141–46, insert 31; seals of, insert 13. See also Account-Inventory

Eustache of Conflans, 77n13

Faral, Edmond, 114–15, 123n42, 138n85, 158n127, 170nn146–47

Farmer, Sharon, 206

Fieschi, Opizzo, 42n61

Fifth Crusade (1217–21), 57, 220

First Crusade (1095–99), 3, 7, 118, 139n86, 140n88

Folda, Jaroslav, 14, 80n28, 92

folk taxonomies, 11

Fontainebleau, forest of, 154n121

Fourth Crusade (1202–4), 3–4, 86n59, 220

Franciscans: bequests made to, 181, 181n26, 196, 204; Clement IV’s exhortation to, 135; clothing of, 124n49, 133n70; headquarters in Montmusard, 64; Urban IV’s commission to, 128

Frederick II (Holy Roman emperor), 237

French language: Account-Inventory and, 3, 15, 15n35, 66–71, 70n20, 85; documentary writing style in, 70–71, 70n20; Eudes’s use of, 16, 16n37; geographical studies of, 16n38; knightly narrative style in, 70–71; Outremer French, 5, 66–71, 85n55; Rutebeuf’s use of, 15n35, 85, 85n55; vernacular tradition, 70n20; wills written in, 176

Friars of the Holy Trinity, 196

Friars of the Sack (Brothers of the Penitence of Jesus Christ), 181n24, 196

Galvez, Marisa, 109n13

garçons. See pages

garments. See clothing

Gaucher of Châtillon, 101n45

Gautier of Châtillon, 76n7

gems, 71, 104n55, 215–16, 218, 222, 222n30, 225, 227–28, insert 17–18

Genart, Adam, 76

gentillesse, 8, 120, 143, 168

Geoffrey of Fleury, 208

Geoffrey of Sergines (the elder): bequests made to, 102; conversion and baptism overseen by, 98n32; death of, 83, 83n41, 122; debts of, 82, 83; drinking cup and, 221; Eudes’s possessions purchased by, 87, 107, 236; French language used by, 15; John of Joinville on, 60n14, 81; letter asking for funds, 140n90; Louis IX and, 60, 81; poetic portrait by Rutebeuf, 74, 81; portable altar of, 97–98n29; Rutebeuf’s “The Lament for My Lord Geoffrey of Sergines,” 81, 115, 122–27; Templar of Tyre on, 81n31, 82, 83n41

Geoffrey of Sergines (the younger): death of, 83; as executor for Eudes, 16, 61, 74, 75, 82; French language used by, 15; transfer of funds and loans by, 60, 61n18

gifts: as demonstration of status, 232–33; of knightly equipment, 234–35; male solidarities reinforced through, 221; for weddings, 222. See also bequests

Giles (archbishop of Tyre), 196

Gilles of Sergines, 83

Giuseppi, M. S., 177, 180n15

Givri, Huguenin, 88

goblets. See drinking cups

Godfrey of Bouillon, 117, 118, 139n86, 140n88

Grandson, Otto de, 184n39, 187

Gregory X (pope), 83, 204

Guillaume le Chapelain, 85, 85n53, 98, 224, 226

Guy (king of Jerusalem), 197

Guy of Châtillon, 145n102

Guy IV of Forez, 61n20, 85, 103n54

Guy VI of Limoges, 89n73

Ham, Edward Billings, 169n144

Haram al-Sharif documents, 239–43, 240n8, 240n11, 243n21

heart, embalming and burial of, 36n37, 61, 89, 91, 91n1, 108–9, 109nn12–13, 141, 228

henaps. See drinking cups

Henry III (king of England), 15, 15n34, 79, 177

Henry of Rosnay, 77

Homede, 87

horses, 42n60, 87, 96, 232–33, 233n19, 235, insert 21. See also war horses

Hospitallers: Acre compound, 180n18, 193, 200; bequests made to, 18, 103, 180, 235; debts owed to, 31n27, 90, 90n79; grand master of, 185; jurisdictional disputes with, 197; written texts produced by, 67, 68

Hospital of Saint Brigid, 181, 181n21

Hospital of St. Anthony, 197

Hospital of St. John. See Hospitallers

Hospital of the Brothers and/or Sisters of Bethlehem, 180, 180–81n19

Hospital of the Germans, 197

Hospital of the Holy Spirit, 197

houppelandes, 43n64, 99, 99n39

Hugh (earl of Stafford), 234, 234n25

Hugh III of Burgundy (great-grandfather of Eudes), 57, 91n1

Hugh IV of Burgundy (father of Eudes), 21n9, 57–58, 58nn3–4, 135, 141, 215, 216n4, 221

Hugh de Neville, 61n20, 176–83, 217–18, 234–35

Hugh of Augerant: bequests made to, 102, 104, 215; delivery of Eudes’s bequests, 44n69, 84, 104, 215–16, 216n4, 219; drinking cup accepted by, 84, 218–19, 221; as executor for Eudes, 16, 61, 74, 82, 84, 215, 218, 230; French language used by, 15; lands given to, 26n6, 84; payments made to, 230, 230n5

Hugh of Châtillon, 122, 145n102

Hugh of Conflans, 77n13, 78n15

Humbert of Romans, 115

hunting, 154n121, insert 22

Ibn Jubayr, 194

independent crusaders, 59, 59n8, 229, 229n1

ink production, 243, 243n20

Innocent III (pope), 196

Innocent IV (pope), 207

Isabella I (queen of Jerusalem), 195–96

Islam and Muslims: in Acre, 201; conversion to, 131n62, 131n64; Haifa conquered by, 198; Haram al-Sharif documents and, 243; intellectual-religious tradition in, 238–39; Jerusalem controlled by, 237; Louis IX’s treaty with, 131n64; in Outremer, 5, 8; Qur’an and, 204, 242; Rutebeuf on, 116; shar’i courts, 238–40, 243; Sufis, 238, 243; Sunnis, 140n89; William of Tripoli’s treatise on, 204

Islamic Museum (Jerusalem), 239

Jack the Palmer, 182, 182n31

Jacobins. See Dominicans

Jacoby, David, 80n28

Jaffa, Treaty of (1229), 237

Jami, Nafisa b. Ali b., 241–42

Jean de Sergines, 83–84

Jeanne of Constantinople, 130n59

Jeanne of Flanders, 222

Jeanne of France (countess of Champagne, queen of Navarre), 83

Jean of Châtillon, 76, 76n7

Jean of Vallery, 75–76nn5–7, 75–77

Jean Tristan (prince of France): bequests made to, 84, 102, 104, 115; crusades and, 91n1, 147, 156; heart separated from body, 109; marriage to Yolande of Nevers, 61, 72, 141, 144n99, 216, 219

Jehan le Porer, 87

Jerusalem, Kingdom of: built environment of cities in, 192–93; charitable landscape of, 64n3; Haram al-Sharif documents from, 239–43, 240n8, 240n11, 243n21; Mamluk rule in, 237, 238; Muslim control of, 237; pilgrimage sites in, 199, 200n8; political frontiers of, 191. See also Acre

jeu-parti (poetic genre), 160n134

jewelry: brooches, insert 18, insert 21; cameos, 92, 102–3, 216, 233; necklaces, 104n55, 242; rings, 18, 71, 102–4, 182, 215–16, 219, 233–35, 233n16, 234n25, insert 17

Jews, 5, 8, 137, 201, 237, 243, 243n21

John of Ancona, 203–4

John of Bourbon (brother of Eudes), 84, 102, 103, 215, 216n4

John of Brittany, 187

John of Châtillon, 145n102

John of Garland, 211

John of Ibelin, 81

John of Joinville: on chapel tent sent to Mongols, 95n18; crusading household of, 229–36, 232n12; on food provisions for armies, 96nn21–22; on Geoffrey of Sergines (the elder), 60n14, 81; gifts to empress of Constantinople, 232–33; injury and recovery of, 64; on Jean of Vallery, 75–76, 75–76n5; knightly equipment of, 233–36; knights led by, 96n22, 231, 231n8; Life of Saint Louis, 8, 75, 81, 229–32, 230n3; on Yves the Breton, 204

John of Montmirail, 40n48, insert 25

John of Saint-Maxentius, 28n13

John of Warenne, 234

Jordan, William Chester, 96n21, 98n32

Jotischky, Andrew, 191

Jubinal, Achille, 134n73, 148n105

Khwarazmians, 140n89

Kingdom of Jerusalem. See Jerusalem, Kingdom of

knights: Champenois, 26n2, 75, 99n36; chivalry and, 8, 71, 74, 120, 128, 141; in crusading households, 7, 86–88, 90, 218, 229–33; in cultural imaginary, 70n21, 71, 103; equipment used by, 233–36, 233n19; Eudes’s possessions purchased by, 107; interest in Eastern cultures, 203; maintenance of, 60, 60n15, 86n60, 88n70; oaths of fidelity and trust taken by, 221; payment of, 35n36, 37n41, 86–87, 86–87nn60–62; stationed in Acre, 60, 60n13, 81, 126n56; Teutonic, 47n74, 67, 68, 83n41, 95. See also crusades; horses; Hospitallers; swords; Templars

lais (instructions), 25–26n1, 61, 175

Lambourn, Elizabeth, 97n28

Le Paraclet Abbey (France), 220, 220n21

Leson, Richard A., 215

Lespinasse, Réne de, 6n7, 92

Levant: drinking cups in, 217; Eudes’s short period in, 218; Latin inhabitants of, 202; local vocabulary in, 66, 68–69; textiles in, 206, 206n1, 214

Le Veaul, Hermenin, 88

light cavalrymen (turcopoles), 66, 86, 230, 230n4, 232

Little, Donald, 240, 240n11, 242n19

Louis VIII (king of France), 220

Louis IX (king of France): Caesarea supported by, 198; closure of royal court to entertainers, 114; clothing of, 99, 99n36; crusades and, 57–60, 58n3, 59n7, 76–78, 119, 122, 147, 156, 196, 229, 231; cult of martyrs’ crowns established by, 126–27n56; death of, 104, 147; Eudes’s expedition supported by, 227; fortifications of Acre rebuilt by, 192, 200; Geoffrey of Sergines (the elder) and, 60, 81; heart separated from body, 109; Joinville and, 229–31; payment of knights by, 87n62; Templars as bank of deposit for, 67, 68n15; treaty with Muslims in Egypt, 131n64

Lower, Michael, 77n12, 156

Lufti, Huda, 240n11

Mahaut II of Bourbon (wife of Eudes), 57, 76, 221

Mamluks: Caesarea conquered by, 82, 198; campaigns against crusader castles and towns, 58; in Egypt, 119, 238; fall of Acre to (1291), 5; Haram al-Sharif documents and, 239–43, 240n8, 240n11, 243n21; refugees from regions captured by, 191, 201; shar’i courts and, 238–40, 243; in Syria, 119, 238, 239; Templar fort captured by, 199; waqf (charitable system) of, 238–39

Mansurah, Battle of (1250), 76, 76n5, 231

Marguerite of Burgundy (sister of Eudes), 27n10, 89, 89n73

Marguerite of Tonnerre (daughter of Eudes), 61, 72, 83, 83n46, 105, 221–22

Marie of Hungary, 222

Martin (saint), insert 21

Mass, 82, 85, 97–98, 98n31, 224–28, 224n5, 232

materiality, 9–13, 9nn14–15, 17n41

material philology, 10–11

Matins, 134n74

McNamer, Sarah, 221

Menant, Odet de, 88

Merry, Gaucher de, 26n2, 86, 86n59, 88, 102, 221

Merry, Geoffrey de, 86n59

Michael VIII Palaeologus (Byzantine emperor), 58, 128

Middleham Jewel, 104n55

Miller, Maureen C., 223

Minors. See Franciscans

Mongols: chapel tent sent to, 95n18; emergence of, 58, 214; Mamluk defeat of, 238; perceived fear of the sea, 133n72; refugees from regions captured by, 201; Resafa conquered by, 220; textile production in, 206–9, 214; threat of European expansion, 133n71

Mont-Cornet, Hugh de, 87, 87n68, 107

Morgan Picture Bible, 95n18, 221, insert 16

Morreale, Laura, 11

Müller, Christian, 240n11

Munchensy, Ralph de, 181, 181–82n28

Muslims. See Islam and Muslims

Mussy, Jehan de, 88

Al-Mustansir (emir of Tunis), 156

Naime (counselor of Charlemagne), 133n69

necklaces, 104n55, 242

Nemours, Marguerite de, 79, 79n21

Nichols, Stephen G., 10–11

Order of St. Lazarus, 46n70, 181, 181n20

Order of St. Thomas of Canterbury, 180, 180n16, 235

Order of the Holy Trinity, 181, 181n22

orfreys, 211, 211n22

Outremer: Account-Inventory and, 66–71, 91; boundaries of, 3–5, 4m; cultural diversity in, 5, 8; currencies used in, 33–34n35, 69; French language used in, 5, 66–71, 85n55; housing in, 192–93; knightly culture of, 70n21, 71, 103; material, 9–13, 96n18, 109; nonknightly forces in armies of, 232n14; religious houses in, 64n5; Rutebeuf’s “The Complaint of Outremer,” 118, 135–40; Rutebeuf’s “The New Complaint of Outremer,” 81, 117, 118, 164–74. See also Acre; Jerusalem, Kingdom of

pages (garçons), 27n9, 60n15, 78, 86, 88, 93–94, 230, 232

Paul (saint), 118, 160n132, 164

Paul, Nicholas, 234n25

Peers, Glenn, 220

Pegalotti, Francesco Balducci, 209

Petit, Ernst, 86n59, 92

Philip III (king of France), 26n2, 75n4, 79, 79n26, 83, 141, 147, 156, 164, 167n139

Philip Augustus (king of France), 130n59

Phocas, John, 194

Pierre of Alençon, 98n33, 147, 156

pilgrimages, 159n130, 199, 200n8

Pizorrno, Gabe, 11

Polo, Marco, 209, 210

priests, 85, 97, 119, 192, 197, 224, 226, 232

Pringle, Denys, 64, 64n1, 181n21, 195, 223n2

prudhomme, 8, 118–19n33, 118–27, 121n39, 142, 149–50, 168–69, 173, 187

pyxes, 98, 224, 224n5, insert 29

quilts, 93, 209, 241, 243

Qur’an, 204, 242

Ralph of Ecclesall, 182, 182n30

Raoul of Coucy, 219–20

Regalado, Nancy Freeman, 116

relics, 40n48, 71, 80, 97, 97n29, 99n37, 101, 103, 104, 109, 222

religious houses: Benedictines, 195–96; bequests made to, 64, 195–96, 204, 235; Carmelites, 46n72, 181, 181n23, 196; Cistercians, 36n37, 89, 91, 133n70, 195, 220; Claresses, 195, 195n17; Dominicans, 133n70, 135, 181, 181n25, 196, 204; Friars of the Holy Trinity, 196; Friars of the Sack, 181n24, 196. See also Franciscans

reliquaries, 36n37, 97, 104, 215, 225, insert 28

Resafa cup, 219–20, 219–20nn20–21, 222, insert 27

Revel, Hugh, 188

Reynaud of Précigné, 86–87, 230n5

Riccoldo of Monte Croce, 199

Richard, Jean, 59

Richard I (king of England), 197

Riley-Smith, Jonathan, 6nn6–7, 7, 33n34, 80n28, 86–87, 92

Robert of Artois, 76n5, 147

Robert II of Béthune, 164

Robert of Birdsall, 182, 182n29

Robert of Boves, 220

Robert II of Burgundy (brother of Eudes), 91n1, 109n12

Robert of Clari, 70n20

Robert of Flanders, 26n6, 72, 84

Robert of Juennesses, 33n34, 86–87, 102, 230n5

Röhricht, Reinhold, 6

Roland (nephew of Charlemagne), 117, 137n82

Roll A: chronology of, 19, 20t; debts owed and paid on, 82, 230n5; description of, 13, 25, 25f, insert 1, insert 3–6; drinking cups and, 217, 217n9; function as feudal register, 72; stitching on, 29, 29–30n19, 38; translation and transcription, 25–39

Roll B: bequests listed on dorsal side of, 18, 101–5; chronology of, 17–20, 20t; commemorative function of, 73; as deathbed testament or inventory, 18, 215n1; description of, 13, 17–18, 25, 25f, insert 1, insert 3, insert 7; items absent from, 97, 98; items recorded on, 92–99, 215–17, 226; knightly narrative style in, 71; spatial recording of possessions on, 96–97; translation and transcription, 39–44; visibility of Acre within, 91–92

Roll C: appraisal of items on, 99–100; bequests listed on dorsal side of, 18, 101–5, 103f; chronology of, 18–20; commemorative function of, 73, 100–101; description of, 13–14, 18, 25, 25f, insert 1–3; knightly narrative style in, 71; place-names recorded on, 64; translation and transcription, 45–48; visibility of Acre within, 91–92

Roll D: chronology of, 18–19, 20t; commemorative function of, 73; description of, 14, 18–19, 25, 25f, insert 1, insert 3; liturgical furnishings and, 224n5, 225; on sale of Eudes’s possessions, 99n37, 106–8; translation and transcription, 48–53

Rubin, Jonathan, 198

Rutebeuf: background of, 114; “The Complaint of Acre,” insert 32; “The Complaint of Constantinople,” 128–34; “The Complaint of Outremer,” 118, 135–40; contemporary observations through poetry of, 74–75; “The Disputation between the Crusader and the Noncrusader,” 156–63; French language used by, 15n35, 85, 85n55; “The Lament for Count Eudes of Nevers,” 39n46, 80, 106, 141–46, insert 31; “The Lament for My Lord Geoffrey of Sergines,” 81, 115, 122–27; “The New Complaint of Outremer,” 81, 117, 118, 164–74; “The Poem of the Route to Tunis,” 118, 147–55; poetic persona of, 113–14; as propagandist, 113, 114, 117–18; on religious life, 123n47; as social critic, 117, 119, 154n120, 164, 171n150; terminology considerations, 120–21; themes in poetry of, 116–17, 220n23; transcription and translation of works, 115–16, 119n34, 123n42

Rymer, Thomas, 184

Safforit, Salemon de, 87, 87n65, 202

St. Denis church (Montmusard), 181, 181n27

St. Giles church (Montmusard), 183, 183n34

St. Nicholas cemetery (Acre), 89, 101, 101n46, 108, 109n12, 180, 180n14

Saladin (Ayyubid sultan), 120, 191, 196

Salihiyya, Muhammad ‘Isa, 242n19

Sanç, Nunó, 235

Saumur, Gilles de, 28n13, 89n73, 196

sergeants, 7, 17, 19, 88, 230–32

Sergius (saint), 220

serpent’s tongues, 94–95, insert 23

servants, 7, 37n41, 61, 85, 86, 88–89, 91, 93–94, 178, 230–32, 232n12

serventois (poetic genre), 150n112

Shachar, Uri Zvi, 237

shar’i courts, 238–40, 243

Sibylla (queen of Jerusalem), 197

Sissy, Étienne de, 30n21, 88

Sissy, Perriau de, 88

Smail, Daniel Lord, 11, 96, 97n23

Smith, Caroline, 229

Souilly, Hugh de, 85n53

squires, 60n15, 78, 86, 88, 230–32

status, 27nn8–9, 83, 193, 205, 220, 223, 227–29, 232–34

stipendarii in Acre, 60, 60n13, 81

Sufis, 238, 243

swords, 14, 95, 95n15, 97, 182, 233–35, 234n22

Syria: French commitment to, 59; Mamluk rule in, 119, 238, 239; Mongol destruction in, 220; textile production in, 206n2

Tabarie, Lionnet de, 87, 87n65, 202–3

Tagliacozzo, Battle of (1268), 77, 77n12

Tancred, 117, 118, 140n88

Tartar cloth (dras de tartais): baudekin and, 207–9, 207n5; clothing made with, 227, insert 19; of eastern provenance, 21, 41n54, 66; of Eudes, 93, 93n5, 94, 108; lampas weave technique, 208, insert 20; as material product of the East, 203; woven with gold thread, 36n37

Templar of Tyre, 81n31, 82–83, 83n41, 101, 105, 110, 200, 222

Templars: Acre compound, 180n17, 193, 200; as bank of deposit for Louis IX, 67, 68n15; bequests made to, 180, 218; communication with William of Jerusalem, 231n6, 232n14; debts owed to, 18, 19, 82, 83, 90; Eudes’s possessions purchased by, 31n25, 93, 99n37, 107–8; grand master of, 30n24, 89, 89n77, 185; Rule and Retrais, 68, 68n16, 233; Safad fort held by, 199; written texts produced by, 67, 68

tents, 80, 82n38, 95, 95nn17–18, 108, 224, 224n3, insert 26

Teutonic Knights, 47n74, 67, 68, 83n41, 95

textiles: altar cloths, 224, 226, 227; buckram, 41n54, 66, 203, 206–10; camelin, 40n52, 43n65, 66, 99, 203, 211, 211n21, 227–28; camlet, 43n65, 93, 206–7, 210–11, 210–11nn18–19; cendal silk, 41n56, 43–44n67, 207, 211–14, 227–28; meanings of Eastern cloth, 21–22, 21n50, 94n11; orfreys, 211, 211n22; production centers, 21n9, 206–14, 211n23, 241, 241n12; reuse of, 100, 100n42; terminology and technical requirements, 207; tiretaine, 40n52, 98, 98n35, 211, 212, 227; toile linen cloth, 40n49; weavers and, 208, 210, 242–43n19; woolen, 43n63, 206, 211–12, 211–12nn23–24, 227. See also clothing; Tartar cloth

textual stratigraphy, 12

Thibaut IV of Champagne, 76, 80n28

Thibaut V of Champagne and Navarre, 21n9, 77–78, 78n15, 109, 147, 150n113

Third Crusade (1189–92), 57, 91n1, 180n16, 197, 220

Thoyras, Rapin de, 184

Tibetot, Robert, 185, 187

tiretaine, 40n52, 98, 98n35, 211, 212, 227

toile linen cloth, 40n49

Tor, William de la, 87

treaties. See specific names of treaties

Tunis crusade (1270), 59, 72, 78, 115, 118–20, 147, 147n104, 156

turcopoles. See light cavalrymen

‘Umar, Muhammad b. Muhammad b., 242–43, 242–43n19

Umfraville, Ingram de, 182, 182–83n33

Urban IV (pope), 82, 88, 97–98n29, 128

Vaivre, Jean-Bernard de, 221

Valence, William de, 187

vestments, 18, 98, 98n30, 100, 101n45, 224–28, 224n4, 227n12

Vidaut, Jaque (Jacques Vidal), 87, 87n66, 96, 203

Villehardouin, Geoffrey de, 70n20

Viterbo, Treaty of (1267), 59n7

Vitry, Jacques de, 193–94

waqf (charitable system), 238–39

wardrobe. See clothing

war horses, 78, 95, 107, 178, 182, 203, 232, 233n19

War of St. Sabas (1258–61), 194, 202, 202n17

weavers, 208, 210, 242–43n19

West-Kappel, Battle of (1253), 76

Wilbrand of Oldenbourg, 192

William II of Agen, 42n61, 97n29

William of Beaujeu, 164

William of Jerusalem, 231n6, 232n14

William of Nangis, 81

William of Tripoli, 204

William of Tyre, 80n28

wills: authenticity of, 176; Edward I (England), 61n20, 176, 184–88; Érard of Vallery, 78, 79, 79n26; format required for, 176; French language for recording of, 176; Hugh (earl of Stafford), 234, 234n25; Hugh de Neville, 61n20, 176–83, 234–35; Robert II of Burgundy, 91n1, 109n12. See also Account-Inventory; bequests

woolen textiles, 43n63, 206, 211–12, 211–12nn23–24, 227

Yolande of Dreux (mother of Eudes), 21n49, 57

Yolande of Nevers (daughter of Eudes): children of, 222; counterseal of, 221n24; marriage to Jean Tristan, 61, 72, 141, 144n99, 216, 219; marriage to Robert of Flanders, 26n6, 84

Yves the Breton, 204

Zayn al-Dār, 220

Zayn al-Din, Fatima bint, 241

Zink, Michel, 116n17, 118, 118n29, 123n42, 145n102, 159n129, 169n144

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