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

Making the East Latin: The Latin Literature of the Levant in the Era of the Crusades AL-MASĀQ BOOK REVIEW Making the East Latin: The Latin Literature of the Levant in the Era of the Crusades,by Julian Yolles [Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Humanities], Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 2022, xi + 296 pp., $39.95/£34.95/€36.95 (hardback), ISBN Research on the evolving linguistic and literary cultures established in the Crusader States has been advancing rapidly in recent years. Jonathan Rubin’s work Learning in a Crusader City (2018) provides a thorough assessment of intellectual life in the city of Acre during the thir- teenth century, while many articles, especially those found in The French of Outremer edited by Laura K. Morreale and Nicholas L. Paul (2018), offer insights into the emergence and development of Old French in eastern Mediterranean Frankish communities. This present work by Julian Yolles, Making the East Latin, represents a further significant advance in this field, providing a highly original and rigorously researched study of the formation of a distinctive Latin culture in the Crusader States (focusing especially on Jerusalem and Antioch) in the years from the First Crusade to the fall of Jerusalem (1099–1187). Structurally, Yolles begins with a contextual overview, discussing the surviving sources – such as coins, seals and texts – which provide the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masāq Taylor & Francis

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

Morton, Nicholas
Al-Masāq , Volume 35 (1): 3 – Jan 2, 2023
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10.1080/09503110.2023.2173876
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AL-MASĀQ BOOK REVIEW Making the East Latin: The Latin Literature of the Levant in the Era of the Crusades,by Julian Yolles [Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Humanities], Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 2022, xi + 296 pp., $39.95/£34.95/€36.95 (hardback), ISBN Research on the evolving linguistic and literary cultures established in the Crusader States has been advancing rapidly in recent years. Jonathan Rubin’s work Learning in a Crusader City (2018) provides a thorough assessment of intellectual life in the city of Acre during the thir- teenth century, while many articles, especially those found in The French of Outremer edited by Laura K. Morreale and Nicholas L. Paul (2018), offer insights into the emergence and development of Old French in eastern Mediterranean Frankish communities. This present work by Julian Yolles, Making the East Latin, represents a further significant advance in this field, providing a highly original and rigorously researched study of the formation of a distinctive Latin culture in the Crusader States (focusing especially on Jerusalem and Antioch) in the years from the First Crusade to the fall of Jerusalem (1099–1187). Structurally, Yolles begins with a contextual overview, discussing the surviving sources – such as coins, seals and texts – which provide the

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