Explanatory Notes
These Notes Serve Different Purposes. In Part, They Provide Historical And Contextual Details For The Events Recounted In The Poem That Might OtherWise Prove Puzzling To The General Modern Reader. No Attempt Has Been Made, Of Course, To Duplicate The Now Voluminous Published Materials Devoted To Pierre, French Culture In Cyprus, And The Fourteenth-Century Crusade; The Principal Relevant Works Are Amply Referenced Here And In Both The Introduction And The Selected Bibliography. However, I Have Tried To Provide Enough In The Way Of Necessary Facts So That An Informed Reading Of The Poem Is Possible Without Any Consultation Of The Secondary Literature.
At the same time, these notes are also for the convenience of fellow scholars. ...
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