The French of Outremer: Communities and Communications in the Crusading Mediterranean
Laura Morreale and Nicholas L. Paul
Abstract
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. The contributors to this book examine different aspects of the life and literary culture associated with this French-speaking society. Readers will find in this book 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 ... More
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. The contributors to this book examine different aspects of the life and literary culture associated with this French-speaking society. Readers will find in this book 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.
Keywords:
Crusades,
Crusader states,
history of medieval French,
medieval Mediterranean,
Medieval Studies,
postcolonial theory
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2018 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780823278169 |
| Published to Fordham Scholarship Online: September 2018 |
DOI:10.5422/fordham/9780823278169.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Laura Morreale, editor
Fordham University
Nicholas L. Paul, editor
Fordham University
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