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Learning in a Crusader City - Intellectual Activity and Intercultural Exchanges in Acre, 1191-1291 (Hardcover)
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Learning in a Crusader City - Intellectual Activity and Intercultural Exchanges in Acre, 1191-1291 (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
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Did the Crusades trigger significant intellectual activity? To what
extent and in what ways did the Latin residents of the Crusader
States acquire knowledge from Muslims and Eastern Christians? And
how were the Crusader states influenced by the intellectual
developments which characterized the West in the twelfth and
thirteenth centuries? This book is the first to examine these
questions systematically using the complete body of evidence from
one major urban centre: Acre. This reveals that Acre contained a
significant number of people who engaged in learned activities, as
well as the existence of study centres housed within the city. This
volume also seeks to reconstruct the discourse that flowed across
four major fields of learning: language and translation,
jurisprudence, the study of Islam, and theological exchanges with
Eastern Christians. The result is an unprecedentedly rich portrait
of a hitherto neglected intellectual centre on the Eastern shores
of the medieval Mediterranean.
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