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This collection offers a holistic understanding of the impact of both crusading and settlement on the literary cultures of Latin Christendom.The period between the First Crusade and the collapse of the'crusader states'in the eastern Mediterranean was a crucial one for medieval historical writing. From the departure of the earliest crusading armies in 1096 to the Mamlūk conquest of the Latin states in the late thirteenth century, crusading activity, and the settlements it established and aimed to protect, generated a vast textual output, offering rich insights into the historiographical cultures of the Latin West and Latin East. However, modern scholarship on the crusades and the'crusader states'has tended to draw an artificial boundary between the two, even though medieval writers treated their histories as virtually indistinguishable.This volume places these spheres into dialogue with each other, looking at how individual crusading campaigns and the Frankish settlements in the eastern Mediterranean were depicted and remembered in the central Middle Ages. Its essays cover a geographical range that incorporates England, France, Germany, southern Italy and the Holy Land, and address

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Author

Andrew D. Buck (editor), James H. Kane (editor), Stephen J. Spencer (editor)

Publisher

The Boydell Press

Published

2024

Language

EN

ISBN

9781783277339

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities