The Canso d'Antioca

'The editors are to be congratulated on an excellent edition which provides scholars with an edition and a study of a text too long neglected.' Medium Aevum 'The introductory chapters do a superb job of presenting the text as a work of literature and of history, outlining the historical events the Canso attempts to describe, setting the Canso in place as a work in the Occitan and Western European literary tradition. Sweetenham and Paterson have considered not only previous studies of the Canso, but also an incredibly wide range of scholarship, from Occitan linguistics to medieval military tactics; from art history as it applies to their text to Crusade historiography. Underlying all this is their profound knowledge of the Occitan literary tradition as a reference point for the Canso. We can only be grateful.' Mediaevistik 'This edition definitively replaces that of Paul Meyer in the Archives de l'Orient latin (1884).' Crusades 'Sweetenham and Paterson's book is a distinguished contribution to philological and historical scholarship and an important addition to studies on the First Crusade as well as on Occitan epic and medieval vernacular historiography... First conceived in 1965, this magnificent undertaking is now complete, an outstanding achievement of North American scholarship in the field of medieval studies.' Speculum