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Cultural Encounters during the Crusades

Cultural Encounters during the Crusades Al-Masa¯q, 2015 Vol. 27, No. 1, 93–107 Book Reviews KURT VILLADS JENSEN,KIRSO SALONEN and HELLE VOGT (Eds), 2013 Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark 329 pp. DKK325.00/US$48.00/£29.90 (hardback) ISBN 9788776746599 The quantity of cultural encounters examined in this edited collection – be they lit- erary, theological, legal, concerned with the practicalities of everyday life or found in recent media productions – is impressive. The editors have been ambitious in this undertaking, but in doing so have produced a work that encompasses great geo- graphical and methodological diversity. Based on papers delivered at a conference held at the Danish Institute in Damascus in late 2009, prior to the outbreak of conflict, this collection includes the contributions of scholars from eight countries and a range of disciplines, although seventeen of the eighteen chapters are written in English. The important and deserved study of cultural encounters within scholarly enquiry is emphasised within the introduction by way of a narration of the fascinating trou- bles that faced Kurt Villads Jensen, an editor and contributor, hours before the opening of the conference upon which this collection is based. Indeed, the Syrian Ministry of Culture’s last-minute ban on his paper due to a misunderstanding of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Taylor & Francis

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Al-Masa¯q, 2015 Vol. 27, No. 1, 93–107 Book Reviews KURT VILLADS JENSEN,KIRSO SALONEN and HELLE VOGT (Eds), 2013 Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark 329 pp. DKK325.00/US$48.00/£29.90 (hardback) ISBN 9788776746599 The quantity of cultural encounters examined in this edited collection – be they lit- erary, theological, legal, concerned with the practicalities of everyday life or found in recent media productions – is impressive. The editors have been...
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Al-Masa¯q, 2015 Vol. 27, No. 1, 93–107 Book Reviews KURT VILLADS JENSEN,KIRSO SALONEN and HELLE VOGT (Eds), 2013 Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark 329 pp. DKK325.00/US$48.00/£29.90 (hardback) ISBN 9788776746599 The quantity of cultural encounters examined in this edited collection – be they lit- erary, theological, legal, concerned with the practicalities of everyday life or found in recent media productions – is impressive. The editors have been ambitious in this undertaking, but in doing so have produced a work that encompasses great geo- graphical and methodological diversity. Based on papers delivered at a conference held at the Danish Institute in Damascus in late 2009, prior to the outbreak of conflict, this collection includes the contributions of scholars from eight countries and a range of disciplines, although seventeen of the eighteen chapters are written in English. The important and deserved study of cultural encounters within scholarly enquiry is emphasised within the introduction by way of a narration of the fascinating trou- bles that faced Kurt Villads Jensen, an editor and contributor, hours before the opening of the conference upon which this collection is based. Indeed, the Syrian Ministry of Culture’s last-minute ban on his paper due to a misunderstanding of

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