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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| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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