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Crusades in literature.

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This book explores the ways in which discourses of religious, racial, and national identity blur and engage each other in the medieval West. Specifically, the book studies depictions of Muslims in England during the 1330s and argues that these depictions, although historically inaccurate, served to enhance and advance assertions of English national identity at this time. The book examines Saracen characters in a manuscript renowned for the variety of its texts, and discusses hagiographic legends, elaborations of chronicle entries, and popular romances about Charlemagne, Arthur, and various Eng

English literature --- Islam and literature --- National characteristics, English, in literature. --- Romances, English --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- Manuscripts, English (Middle) --- Saracens in literature. --- Crusades in literature. --- English manuscripts (Middle) --- Manuscripts, Middle English --- Middle English manuscripts --- English romances --- Literature and Islam --- Literature --- Islamic civilization --- Islamic influences. --- History --- History and criticism. --- Manuscripts. --- Auchinleck manuscript. --- Islamic Empire --- Arab countries --- Arab Empire --- Empire, Islamic --- Middle East --- Muslim Empire --- Foreign public opinion, English. --- In literature. --- National characteristics [English ] in literature --- Manuscripts [English ] (Middle) --- Saracens in literature --- Crusades in literature --- Auchinleck manuscript

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Chansons de geste --- Epic poetry, French --- Crusades in literature --- Cycles (Literature) --- History and criticism --- Chanson d'Antioche --- Crusades in literature. --- Cycles (Literature). --- History and criticism. --- Chanson d'Antioche. --- Poetry --- Old French literature --- 840 "11" --- -Crusades --- -Cycles (Literature) --- -Literature --- Sequels (Literature) --- French epic poetry --- French poetry --- Church history --- Middle Ages --- Chivalry --- Epic poetry --- Legends --- Heldensage --- 840 "11" Franse literatuur--?"11" --- Franse literatuur--?"11" --- Romances --- -History and criticism --- -French epic poetry --- Literature --- Antioche, Chanson d' --- Antioche (Chanson de Geste) --- Canso d'Antioca --- Chansons de geste - History and criticism --- Epic poetry, French - History and criticism

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Poetic elegies for lost or fallen cities are seemingly as old as cities themselves. In the Judeo-Christian tradition, this genre finds its purest expression in the Book of Lamentations, which mourns the destruction of Jerusalem; in Arabic, this genre is known as the rithā' al-mudun. The City Lament, Tamar M. Boyadjian traces the trajectory of this genre across the Mediterranean world during the period commonly referred to as the early Crusades (1095-1191), focusing on elegies and other expressions of loss focusing on the spiritual and strategic objective of those wars: Jerusalem. Through readings of city laments in English, French, Latin, Arabic, and Armenian literary traditions, this book challenges hegemonic and entrenched approaches to the study of medieval literature and the Crusades.The City Lament exposes significant literary intersections between Latin Christendom, the Islamic caliphates and sultanates of the Middle East, and the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, arguing for shared poetic and rhetorical modes. Reframing our understanding of literary sources produced across the medieval Mediterranean from an antagonistic, Orientalist model to an analogous one, Boyadjian demonstrates how lamentations about the loss of Jerusalem, whether to Muslim or Christian forces, reveal fascinating parallels and rich, cross-cultural exchanges.

Cities and towns in literature. --- Crusades in literature. --- Crusades --- Laments --- Complancha --- Lamentations --- Elegiac poetry --- Mourning customs --- Church history --- Middle Ages --- Chivalry --- In literature. --- History and criticism. --- Jerusalem --- Ierusalim --- Иерусалим --- Yerushalayim --- Jeruzalem --- Quds --- Ūrushalīm --- Kuds --- Kouds --- Erusaghēm --- Bayt al-Maqdis --- Jeruzsálem --- Jerusalem (Israel) --- Jerusalem (Palestine) --- ʻIriyat Yerushalayim --- Ierousalēm --- Gerusalemme --- Baladīyat al-Quds --- Baladīyat al-Quds al-ʻArabīyah --- Jerusalem Arab Municipality --- Qods (Jerusalem) --- ירושלים --- القدس --- al-Quds --- قدس --- Jerusalén