East and West in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean III

Antioch from the Byzantine Reconquest until the End of the Crusader Principality

Edited by K. Ciggaar Edited by V. van Aalst

Book cover: East and West in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean III

Extent: 245 pages

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Subjects: Medieval Studies

Series: Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta

Series volume number: 269

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(April 2018)

ISBN: 9789042934061

Price: $112.00

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This volume includes studies on a Latin-Armenian list of words, a Middle Dutch Song (Lied) of Antioch, possibly a daughter of the French Chanson d’Antioch, a late sixteenth-century Ortelian map with a panorama of Antioch, aments on Antioch and Tripoli, prophesies on the Fall of Tripoli, Latins and Eastern Christians, Western and Eastern sponsor portraits in sanctuaries, and the two missing cloisonne enamels of the famous Vardzia Gospel.


The complexity of the multi-ethnic and multi-cultural society of the Eastern Mediterranean world asks for research on a wide variety of topics. Three unique documents, preserved or produced in the West, reflect an interest in this world: a Latin-Armenian list of words (Jos Weitenberg), a Middle Dutch Song (Lied) of Antioch, possibly a daughter of the French Chanson d’Antioch (Geert Claassens) and a late sixteenth-century Ortelian map with a panorama of Antioch (Marita Wijntjes). Laments on Antioch and Tripoli are discussed by Tamar Boyadjian and Floris Sepmeijer, who made a new translation of the Arabic text of Solomon of Ashluh. Numerous prophesies on the Fall of Tripoli were brought together (Krijnie Ciggaar). Latins and Eastern Christians, occasionally Mongols, met in the East (Felicitas Schmieder and Alan Murray). Western and Eastern sponsors had their portraits painted in sanctuaries (Mat Immerzeel). In his study, which reads as a detective, Yuri Pyatnicky traces the fate of the two missing cloisonne enamels that once adorned the book cover and the manuscript od the famous Vardzia Gospel.

  • Edited by K. Ciggaar
  • Edited by V. van Aalst