The French of Outremer

Communities and Communications in the Crusading Mediterranean

Laura K. Morreale and Nicholas L. Paul

Fordham Series in Medieval Studies

Pages: 320

Illustrations: 26 Black and White and Color Illustrations

Fordham University Press

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Published: 10 April 2018

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Description

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.

Praise

An excellent and timely collection that makes an important intervention in the fields of Medieval Studies and Mediterranean Studies, highlighting the role of transnational French in the ‘sea of languages’ located at the meeting point of the three known continents of Asia, Europe, and Africa.---Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto

A truly interdisciplinary undertaking that connects Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Levant, the collection is supported by an orienting introduction by Morreale and Paul and by maps, notes, and color plates of reliquaries... Highly Recommended.---Choice

Author(s)

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.

Contents

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 Trésorier and Robert of Clari’s Conquête 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 Mézières / 247
Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski

List of Contributors / 283

Acknowledgments / 285

Index / 289

Color plates follow page 182