East and West in the Crusader States. Context – Contacts – Confrontations II

Acta of the Congress Held at Hernen Castle in May 1997

edited by H.G.B. Teule and K. Ciggaar

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Extent: 219 pages

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Subjects: Classical Studies, Language & Linguistics

Series: Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta

Series volume number: 92

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(January 1999)

ISBN: 9789042907867

Price: $47.00

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The meeting of East and West in the Crusader States was the theme of a symposium held at Hernen Castle in 1997. It was the continuation of a similar symposium which has been published in the Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 75. Various communities (Arabs, Armenians, Ethiopians, Greeks, Syrians and Latins) and various religions (the Church of Rome, the Orthodox Church of Constantinople, the Jacobites, the Muslims and others) play their part in the various Crusader States, sometimes in the effort to ecumenism, sometimes in the form of confrontations. Coins and seals in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem betray Eastern and Western influences. Daily life is reflected in historical texts, and in exempla and miracula. The fall of Edessa is described in the Lament of Edessa by Nerses Snorhali, which is here for the first time translated into English. Even icon-painting in Egypt reflects crusader influence.

  • Edited by K Ciggaar
  • Edited by HGB Teule