13th century Italian historian, warrior, musician, diplomat, poet, and lawyer
Philip of Novara (c. 1200 – c. 1270) was a medieval historian, warrior, musician, diplomat, poet, and lawyer[1] born at
Novara,
Italy, into a noble house, who spent his entire adult life in the Middle East. He primarily served the
Ibelin family, and featured in a number of prominent battles and negotiations involving
Jerusalem and
Cyprus. He chronicled the
War of the Lombards, the dispute between the Ibelin family and
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor.
He wrote a lengthy treatise on the
feudal law of Jerusalem, which influenced later jurists like
John of Ibelin.
Notes
^Kennedy, Elspeth (1994). "The Knight as Reader of Arthurian Romance". In Martin B. Shichtman and James P. Carley (ed.). Culture and the King: The Social Implications of the Arthurian Legend.
Albany: State University of New York Press. pp. 70–90..
Bibliography
Des quatre âges de l'homme: traité de moral de Philippe de Novare, ed. Marcel de Freville. Paris: Didot, 1888.
Philip of Novara, The Wars of Frederick II against the Ibelins in Syria and Cyprus, trans. John L. La Monte. New York: Columbia University Press, 1936.
Philip of Novara. Guerra di Federico II in Oriente (1223–1242), ed. and Italian trans. Silvio Melani. Naples: Liguori, 1994.
Philip of Novara, Le Livre de forme de plait, ed. and trans. Peter W. Edbury. Nicosia: Cyprus Research Centre, 2009.
Peter W. Edbury. "Philip of Novara and the Livre de forme de plait." Praktika tou tritou diethnous kyprologikou sunedriou (Lefkosia, 16-20 Apriliou 1966), vol. 2, ed. A. Papageorgiou (Nicosia: Etaireia Kupriakon Spoudon, 2001), pp. 555–69.