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The Seventh Crusade, 1244-1254: Sources and Documents. Edited and translated by Peter Jackson. [Crusade Texts in Translation, 16.] (Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company. 2007. Pp. xvi, 256. $79.95. ISBN 978-0-754-65722-4.)
The volume under review here is a selection of texts, 122 in all and many of which have never been published in translation before, that provides information on the preparations for and the execution of Louis IX's first crusade, 1248-54. The translator, Peter Jackson, refers interested readers to the major sources that already exist in usable translations, but retranslates or supplements even some of these. Jackson is a renowned expert on...