Making the East Latin: The Latin Literature of the Levant in the Era of the Crusades

by Julian Yolles

"This new day, new joy, the consummation of toil and devotion with ever new and eternal rejoicing, required new words, new songs from all "

So wrote Raymond of Aguilers, a Proven al priest, when an army of nobles, knights, footmen, and priests from across Europe managed to conquer Jerusalem after three years of traveling and fighting. And there certainly were new words and new songs. These settlers produced a hybrid Latin literature--a "Levantine...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0884024881
• ISBN13: 9780884024880
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.2" x 10.2"