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Merchant Crusaders in the Aegean 1291–1352

Merchant Crusaders in the Aegean 1291–1352 332 BOOK REVIEWS alone and in silence in limbo, requires particular attention for showing how this was the product of key ideas circulating around Saladin’s memory and association with notions of chivalry. Overall, Medieval Empires’ main strength lies in the insights it offers into individual court cultures. The discussion provided on Alfonso X and Saladin (the Ayyubids) is especially inspired and enlightening. It is rather is less persuasive in making use of the inherent oppor- tunity offered by this project to draw broader comparative conclusions and hypotheses about differences and similarities in court cultures across time and space. It does provide some insights of this kind and it is clear that court literature across many cultures served to provide stability and legitimacy for ruling regimes. Having said this, such overarching discus- sion is sometimes rather implicit and I was left with the feeling that far more could have been said. One of this book’s most interesting moments, however, lies in its concluding section, in which the author explores the Mirbad festival run by Saddam Hussein and how this event sought to emulate in many respects the culture of Abbasid court poetry. There are several factual slips which, while not http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Taylor & Francis

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Merchant Crusaders in the Aegean 1291–1352

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332 BOOK REVIEWS alone and in silence in limbo, requires particular attention for showing how this was the product of key ideas circulating around Saladin’s memory and association with notions of chivalry. Overall, Medieval Empires’ main strength lies in the insights it offers into individual court cultures. The discussion provided on Alfonso X and Saladin (the Ayyubids) is especially inspired and enlightening. It is rather is less persuasive in making use of the inherent...
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2018 J. E. Tearney-Pearce
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1473-348X
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0950-3110
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10.1080/09503110.2018.1521589
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332 BOOK REVIEWS alone and in silence in limbo, requires particular attention for showing how this was the product of key ideas circulating around Saladin’s memory and association with notions of chivalry. Overall, Medieval Empires’ main strength lies in the insights it offers into individual court cultures. The discussion provided on Alfonso X and Saladin (the Ayyubids) is especially inspired and enlightening. It is rather is less persuasive in making use of the inherent oppor- tunity offered by this project to draw broader comparative conclusions and hypotheses about differences and similarities in court cultures across time and space. It does provide some insights of this kind and it is clear that court literature across many cultures served to provide stability and legitimacy for ruling regimes. Having said this, such overarching discus- sion is sometimes rather implicit and I was left with the feeling that far more could have been said. One of this book’s most interesting moments, however, lies in its concluding section, in which the author explores the Mirbad festival run by Saddam Hussein and how this event sought to emulate in many respects the culture of Abbasid court poetry. There are several factual slips which, while not

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Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean – Taylor & Francis

Published: Sep 2, 2018

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