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France and the Holy Land : Frankish culture at the end of the Crusades / edited by Daniel H. Weiss & Lisa Mahoney.
Van Pelt Library D161.5.F7 F73 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)
- Parallax
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crusades.
- Franks--Mediterranean Region--History.
- Franks.
- Christianity and other religions.
- Civilization, Medieval.
- History.
- Jerusalem--History--Latin Kingdom, 1099-1244.
- Jerusalem.
- France--History--Medieval period, 987-1515.
- France.
- Mediterranean Region.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 375 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- This book presents thoughtful, provocative essays from leading medievalists that will profoundly influence our understanding of the Crsuades and Crusader culture.
- Contents:
- Part I Art and Poetry in Crusader Paris
- 1 The Old Testament Image and the Rise of Crusader Culture in France / Daniel H. Weiss 3
- 2 Urgent Voices: The Vengeance of Images in Medieval Poetry / Stephen G. Nichols 22
- Part II Frankish Presence in the Levant
- 3 The Crown of France and Acre, 1254-1291 / Jonathan Riley-Smith 45
- 4 Heracles and the Crusaders: Tracing the Path of a Royal Motif / Gustav Kuhnel 63
- 5 The French Connection? Construction of Vaults and Cultural Identity in Crusader Architecture / Robert Ousterhout 77
- Part III Acre as a Cultural Center
- 6 Society, Culture, and the Arts in Crusader Acre / David Jacoby 97
- 7 Before Louis IX: Aspects of Crusader Art at St. Jean d'Acre, 1191-1244 / Jaroslav Folda 138
- Part IV The Uses of Secular History
- 8 The Perception of History in Thirteenth-Century Crusader Art / Bianca Kuhnel 161
- 9 Amazons and Crusaders: The Histoire Universelle in Flanders and the Holy Land / Anne Derbes, Mark Sandona 187
- 10 Angevin Ambitions: The Conradin Bible Atelier and a Neapolitan Localization for Chantilly's Histoire ancienne jusqu'a Cesar / Rebecca W. Corrie 230
- Part V Cultural Exchange in the Age of the Crusades
- 11 Everywhere and Nowhere: The Invisible Muslim and Christian Self-Fashioning in the Culture of Outremer / Anthony Cutler 253
- 12 On Saqis and Ceramics: Systems of Representation in the Northeast Mediterranean / Scott Redford 282
- 13 The Holy Icons: A Lusignan Asset? / Annemarie Weyl Carr 313.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-368) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0801878233
- 0801878241
- OCLC:
- 52429582
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