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See also:AMBROSE (fl. 119o)
, See also:Norman poet, and chronicler of the Third Crusade, author of a See also:work called L'Estoire de la guerre sainte, which describes in rhyming See also:French See also:verse the adventures of See also:Richard Coeur de See also:Lion as a crusader
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The poem is known to us only through one Vatican MS., and See also:long escaped the See also:notice of historians
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The See also:credit for detecting its value belongs to the See also:late Gaston See also:Paris, although his edition (1897) was partially anticipated by the editors of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, who published some selections in the twenty-seventh See also:volume of their Scriptores (1885)
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See also:Ambrose followed Richard I. as a non-, combatant, and not improbably as a See also:court-See also:minstrel
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He speaks as an See also:eye-See also:witness of the See also: But it is no longer possible to regard the Itinerarium as a first-See also:hand narrative . See also:Stubbs's edition of the Itinerarium (Rolls See also:Series, 1864), in which the contrary See also:hypothesis, is maintained, appeared before Gaston Paris published his See also:discovery . See the edition of L'Estoire de la guerre sainte by Gaston Paris in the Collection See also:des documents inedits sur l'histoire de See also:France (1897); the editor discusses in his introduction the See also:biography of Ambrose, the value of the poem as a See also:historical source, and its relation to the Itinerarium . R . See also:Pauli's remarks (iri Monumenta Germaniae Historica . Scriptores, See also:xxvii.) also deserve attention . ' (H . W . C . |
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