East and West in the Crusader States: Context, Contacts, Confrontations : Acta of the Congress Held at Hernen Castle in May 1993, Volume 1

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Krijna Nelly Ciggaar, Adelbert Davids, Herman G. B. Teule
Peeters Publishers, 1996 - History - 203 pages
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.
 

Contents

E P Jackson Some considerations relating to the history of
21
Herman Teule The crusaders in Barhebraeus Syriac and Arabic
39
J J S Weitenberg Literary contacts in Cilician Armenia
63
Adelbert Davids Routes of pilgrimage
81
creuset
103
the Crusader
131
W J Aerts The Symbolon and the Pater Noster in Greek Latin
153
towards the understanding
169
Index
195
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