Chapter 16
The Middle East
Literary Latin production of the Middle East during the Crusader period
(eleventh-fifteenth century) is surely not extensive, but it exists and is important. Of course, some literary
genres in the “Latin East” survive only in French (epic, legal texts, etc.), but several other genres were
composed in Latin, such as historiography, theology, poetry, geography and other ones (scientific translations
from oriental languages, etc.).
Article outline
- Historiography and chronicles
- Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolymitanorum
- Fulcher of Chartres († 1127?)
- Raymond of Aguilers
- Ralph of Caen († post-1130)
- Walter the Chancellor
- Historia Balduini Nicena vel Antiochena
- William of Tyre († circa 1186)
- Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi
- Libellus de expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum
- Jacques de Vitry († 1240)
- Fidentius of Padua († post-1291)
- William of Saint Stephen
- Theology, sermons
- Gerard of Nazareth
- William of Tripoli
- William of Sandwich
- Ricoldus de Monte Crucis († 1320)
- Poetry
- Achard of Arrouaise († 1137)
- Godfrey of Jerusalem
- Albert of Tarsus († post-1204)
- Aymar the Monk († ca. 1202)
- Geography: Descriptiones Terrae Sanctae
- Rorgo Fretellus
- Burchard of Mount Sion
- Riccoldo of Monte Croce
- Hagiography
- Gerard of Nazareth
- Inuentio patriarcharum Abraham, Isaac et Iacob (BHL
9)
- Philippe de Mézières († 1405)
- Medicine
- Stephen of Antioch
- Benevenutus Grapheus (or Grassus) of Jerusalem († ca. 1290)
- Other literary genres
- Sortes regiae Amalrici
- Adelard of Bath († 1152)
- Philip of Tripoli
- Legend of Bahira (Latin version)
- De constructione castri Saphet:
- Relatio de rege Dauide
- Conclusions
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