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This volume deals with relations between the West and Byzantium,
from the accession of Otto I the Great in Germany in 962, until the
Fourth Crusade when Constantinople was conquered by the Western
crusading armies in 1204.
The impact which these contacts and confrontations had on both
sides is discussed in sections dealing with specific areas (such as
the North, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain) as well as in
sections dealing with specific aspects of the process: the journey,
the attractions of the East, and the idea of "autoritates" and
"translationes" of various political and intellectual ideas.
An extensive index will help readers to find specific topics.
The book is illustrated with maps, and with a number of objects
betraying Byzantine influence in the West, or Western presence in
Byzantium.
The meeting of East and West in the Crusader States was the theme
of a symposium held at Hernen Castle in 1997. It was the
continuation of a similar symposium which has been published in the
Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 75. Various communities (Arabs,
Armenians, Ethiopians, Greeks, Syrians and Latins) and various
religions (the Church of Rome, the Orthodox Church of
Constantinople, the Jacobites, the Muslims and others) play their
part in the various Crusader States, sometimes in the effort to
ecumenism, sometimes in the form of confrontations. Coins and seals
in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem betray Eastern and Western
influences. Daily life is reflected in historical texts, and in
exempla and miracula. The fall of Edessa is described in the Lament
of Edessa by Nerses Snorhali, which is here for the first time
translated into English. Even icon-painting in Egypt reflects
crusader influence.
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