Franks, Muslims and Oriental Christians in the Latin Levant
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Byzantine legal influence
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cross-cultural medical practices
Crusader states history
Crusades
demographic analysis crusades
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frontier acculturation in Levant societies
intercultural religious contact
medieval Middle East studies
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Occidente
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- ISBN 9780754659129
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 150 x 224mm
- Publication Date: 28 Nov 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Steven Runciman characterized intellectual life in the Frankish Levant as 'disappointing'; Joshua Prawer claimed that the Franks refused to open up to the East's intellectual achievements. The present collection, the second by Benjamin Kedar in the Variorum series, presents facts that require a modification of these still largely prevailing views. The earliest laws of the Kingdom of Jerusalem were influenced by Byzantine legislation; medical routine in the Jerusalem Hospital, unparalleled in Europe, had counterparts in Oriental hospitals; worshippers of different creeds repeatedly converged; multi-directional conversion recurred time after time. Several articles deal with groups that did abstain from intercultural contacts: Muslim villagers, Frankish clerics and hermits. One article dwells on the asymmetry of Frankish and Muslim mutual perceptions. The volume concludes with studies of specific locations: one argues that Acre was considerably larger than hitherto assumed, another compares its Venetian and Genoese quarters and attempts to locate the remains of a main street, a third reconstructs the history of Caymont.
Benjamin Z. Kedar is Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
