The French of Outremer

Communities and Communications in the Crusading Mediterranean

Laura K. Morreale, Nicholas L. Paul (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2018
Fordham University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8232-7816-9 (ISBN)

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A collection of essays devoted to the culture of the Francophone European crusading states of the eastern Mediterranean. Contributors, including historians of the crusades, Old French literature, and medieval art, each address different themes and questions related to life, literature, and language in the Frankish Levant.

The establishment of feudal principalities in the Levant in the wake of the First Crusade (1095-1099) saw the beginning of a centuries-long process of conquest and colonization of lands in the eastern Mediterranean by French-speaking Europeans. This book examines different aspects of the life and literary culture associated with this French-speaking society. It is the first study of the crusades to bring questions of language and culture so intimately into conversation. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the crusader settlements in the Levant, this book emphasizes hybridity and innovation, the movement of words and people across boundaries, seas and continents, and the negotiation of identity in a world tied partly to Europe but thoroughly embedded in the Mediterranean and Levantine context.

Laura K. Morreale (Edited By) Laura Morreale is Associate Director of Medieval Studies at Fordham University. Nicholas L. Paul (Edited By) Nicholas L. Paul is Associate Professor of History at Fordham University and a member of the faculty of Fordham University’s Center for Medieval Studies.

Introduction / 1

Laura K. Morreale and Nicholas L. Paul

What We Know and Don't Yet Know about Outremer French / 15

Laura Minervini

The Denier Outremer / 30

Alan M. Stahl

Ernoul, Eracles, and the Collapse of the Kingdom of Jerusalem / 44

Peter Edbury

L'Estoire d'Eracles in Outremer / 68

Philip Handyside

Western Eyes on the Latin East: The Chronique d'Ernoul et de Bernard le Tresorier and Robert of Clari's Conquete de Constantinople / 86

Massimiliano Gaggero

A Neglected Relationship: Leontios Makhairas's Debt to Latin Eastern and French Historiography / 110

Angel Nicolaou-Konnari

"Re-Orienting"

Estoires d'Outremer: The Arabic Context of the Saladin Legend / 150

Uri Zvi Shachar

The Tasks of the Translators: Relics and Communications between Constantinople and Northern France in the Aftermath of 1204 / 179

Anne E. Lester

The Pilgrim Translation Market and the Meaning of Courtoisie / 201

Zrinka Stahuljak

The French of Outremer Beyond the Holy Land / 221

Fabio Zinelli

Roles for Women in Colonial Fantasies of Fourteenth-Century France:

Pierre Dubois and Philippe de Mezieres / 247

Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski

List of Contributors / 283

Acknowledgments / 285

Index / 289

Color plates follow page 182

Erscheinungsdatum	16.04.2018
Reihe/Serie	Fordham Series in Medieval Studies
Zusatzinfo	26 Black and White and Color Illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-8232-7816-6 / 0823278166
ISBN-13	978-0-8232-7816-9 / 9780823278169
Zustand	Neuware