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.
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- What We Know and Don’t Yet Know about Outremer French
- The Denier Outremer
- Ernoul, Eracles, and the Collapse of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
- L’Estoire d’Eracles in Outremer
- Western Eyes on the Latin East: The Chronique d’Ernoul et de Bernard le Trésorier and Robert of Clari’s Conquête de Constantinople
- A Neglected Relationship: Leontios Makhairas’s Debt to Latin Eastern and French Historiography
- Re-Orienting” Estoires d’Outremer: The Arabic Context of the Saladin Legend
- The Tasks of the Translators: Relics and Communications between Constantinople and Northern France in the Aftermath of 1204
- The Pilgrim Translation Market and the Meaning of Courtoisie
- The French of Outremer Beyond the Holy Land
- Roles for Women in Colonial Fantasies of Fourteenth-Century France: Pierre Dubois and Philippe de Mézières
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Color plates
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