The City Lament : : Jerusalem across the Medieval Mediterranean / / Tamar M. Boyadjian.
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 La...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) :; 6 b&w halftones |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Introduction: A Wasteland Translated -- Chapter 1. Lamenting Jerusalem -- Chapter 2. The Lost City -- Chapter 3. Papal Lamentations -- Chapter 4. Jerusalem's Prince Levon -- Chapter 5. Forgotten Lamentation -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
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Summary: | 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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781501730863 9783110606553 9783110604252 9783110603255 9783110604184 9783110603187 |
DOI: | 10.7591/9781501730863 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Tamar M. Boyadjian. |