In:Latin Literatures of Medieval and Early Modern Times in Europe and Beyond: A millennium heritage
Edited by Francesco Stella
[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages XXXIV] 2024
► pp. 264–283
Chapter 16The Middle East
Published online: 2 July 2024
https://doi.org/10.1075/chlel.34.16dan
https://doi.org/10.1075/chlel.34.16dan
Abstract
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.).
Keywords: Middle East, Latin East, Outremer, Latin literature, crusades
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
References
References (92)
Sources
De expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum
libellus. In Chronicon anglicanum, De
expugnatione Terrae Sanctae libellus, Thomas Agnellus de morte et sepultura Henrici regis Angliae
junioris, Gesta Fulconis filii Warini, Excerpta ex otiis imperialibus Gervasii
Tileburiensis. ed. by J. Stevenson, 209–262. London: Longman, 1875.
Der Rithmus de expeditione Ierosolimitana des sogenannten
Haymarus monachus Florentinus: ein Augenzeugenbericht über die Belagerung Akkons (1189–1101)
während des dritten Kreuzzugs, S. Falk, A. Placanica (eds.). Firenze: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2006.
Galterii Cancellarii Bella
Antiochena, H. Hagenmeyer (ed.). Innsbruck: Verlag der Wagnerischen Universitäts-Buchhandlung, 1896.
Guilielmi de Sanvico De multiplicatione religionis
Carmelitarum per provincias Syriae et de perditione monasteriorum Terrae
sanctae. AASS,
Mai III, lx–lxiv.
Historia Balduini Nicena vel
Antiochena. In Recueil des historiens des
croisades. Historiens
occidentaux. vol 5. Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, 1889,139–185.
Inuentio patriarcharum Abraham, Isaac et
Iacob (BHL
9). In Recueil des historiens des croisades.
Historiens
occidentaux. vol. 5. Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, 1889, 302–314
Petri Blesensis tractatus duo: Passio Raginaldi principis
Antiochie, Conquestio de dilatione vie Ierosolimitane, Robert B. C. Huygens (ed.). Turnhout: Brepols, 2002.
Ricardus (Canonicus Sanctae Trinitatis
Londoniensis), The Chronicle of the Third Crusade: The Itinerarium
Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi, H. J. Nicholson (ed.). Ashgate: Routledge, 1997
Secondary literature
Balard, Michel. 2006. Les
Latins en Orient (Xe-XVe
siècle), Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.
Boase, T. S. R. 1938. “The
Arts in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem.” Journal of the Warburg
Institute 2: 1–21.
Burnett, Charles. 1995. “The
Institutional Context of Arabic-Latin Translations of the Middle Ages: A Reassessment of the
School of Toledo.” In Vocabulary of
Teaching and Research Between Middle Ages and Reinassance, Weijers, O. (ed.), 215–235. Turnhout: Brepols.
. 1998/1999. “The
Sortes Regiae Amalrici: An Arabic Divinatory Work in the Latin Kingdom of
Jerusalem?” Scripta
Mediterranea 19/20: 229–237.
. 2003. “The
Transmission of Arabic Astronomy via Antioch and
Pisa.” In The Enterprise of Science in
Islam: New Perspectives, J. P. Hogendijk, A. I. Sabra (eds.), 23–51. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
. 2006. “Antioch
as a Link between Arabic and Latin Culture in the Twelfth and Thirteenth
Centuries.” In Occident et Proche-Orient:
contacts scientifiques au temps des Croisades, I. Draelants, A. Thion, B. Van den Abeele (eds.), 1–78., Turnhout: Brepols.
Ciggaar, Krijnie N. 1996. “Manuscripts
as intermediaries: The Crusader States and Literary
Cross-Fertilization. In East and West in
the Crusader States. Context – Contacts – Confrontations, Krijnie N. Ciggaar, Adelbert Davids, Herman G. Teule, (eds.), 131–151. Leuven: Peeters Publisher.
Ciggaar, Krijnie N. 2010. “Cultural
Identities in Antioch (969–1268): Integration and
Disintegration.” In Hybriden Kulturen in
mittelalterlichen Europa, M. Borgolte, B. Schneidmuller (eds.), 105–122. Berlin: Akademie Verlag.
D’Angelo, Edoardo. 2009a. “La
fondazione dell’Ospedale di Gerusalemme e gli orizzonti mediterranei della cultura di Amalfi
medievale,” In Parva pro magnis munera.
Etudes de littérature tardo-antique et médiévales offertes à François Dolbeau par ses
élèves, Goullet, M. (ed.), 357–396. Turnhout: Brepols.
. 2009b. “La
Passio Raginaldi principis de Pedro de Blois (siglo
XII),” In La biografìa griega y latina
como género literario. De la Antegüedad al Renacimiento. Algunas
calas, V. Valcarcel Martínez (ed.), 307–317. Vitoria-Gasteiz: Universidad del País Vasco.
. 2016. “Terrasanta
senza miracoli.” In Aspetti del
meraviglioso nelle letterature medievali. F. E. Consolino, F. Marzella, L. Spetia (eds.), 59–68. Turnhout: Brepols.
. 2017. “La
battaglia del Campo del Sangue (1119): « Dieu non
volt? »” In Il favore di Dio. Metafore
d’elezione nelle letterature del Medioevo, F. Mosetti Casaretto (ed.), 95–109. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso.
. 2018. “A
Latin School in the Norman Principality of
Antioch?” In People, Texts and Artefacts.
Cultural Transmission in the Medieval Norman Worlds, D. Bates, E. D’Angelo, E. van Houts (eds.), 77–88. London: University of London Press.
D’Onofrio, Giulio. 2012. “Quando
la metafisica tornò in Occidente. Ugo Eteriano e la nascita della
theologia
.” Aquinas 55: 67–106.
Edbury, Peter W. 2013. “The
Assises d’Antioche: Law and Custom in the Principality of
Antioch.” In Norman Expansion:
Connections, Continuities and Contrasts, K. Stringer, A. Jotischky A. (eds.), 241–248. Ashgate: Routledge.
Edbury, Peter W., Jaroslav Folda. 1994. “Two
thirteenth-century Manuscripts of Crusader Legal Texts from Saint-Jean
d’Acre.” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld
Institutes 57: 243–254.
Edbury, Peter W. and J. G. Rowe. 1988. William
of Tyre: Historian of the Latin
East. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Edgington, Susan B. 2006. “Antioch:
Medieval city of Culture,” In East and
West in the Medieval Eastern
Mediterranean, vol. 1: Antioch
from the Byzantine reconquest until the End of the Crusader
Principality, K. N. Ciggaar, M. Metcalf M. (eds.), 247–259. Leuven: Uitgeverej Peeters.
Eldredge, L. M. 1988. “A
Thirteenth-Century Ophthalmologist, Benvenutus Grassus: His Treatise and its
Survival”. Journal of the Royal Society of
Medicine 91: 47–52.
Folda, Jaroslav. 1976. Crusader
Manuscript Illumination in Saint-Jean d’Acre.
1275–1291. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
. 1995. The
Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land.
1098–1187. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
. 1997. “I
manoscritti miniati degli stati
crociati.” In Le crociate. L’oriente e
l’occidente da Urbano II a San Luigi 1096–1270, Monique Rey-Delque (ed.), 299–305, Milan: Electa.
. 2005. “Skriptorien
und Malerwerkstätten: Schreiber und Maler in den Kreuzfahrerreichen Syriens und Palästinas im 13.
Jahrhundert.” In Saladin und die
Kreuzfahrer. Begleitband zur Sonderausstellung, A. Wieczorek, M. Fansa, H. Meller (eds.), 205–216. Mainz: Zabern.
Galubovich, G. 1906–1927. Bibliotheca
bio-bibliographica della Terra Santa e dell’Oriente
francescano. Quaracchi: Collegio di s. Bonaventura.
Giardini, M. 2016. Figure
del regno nascosto. Le leggende del Prete Gianni e delle dieci tribù perdute d’Israele fra
Medioevo e prima età
moderna. Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore.
Gillingham, John. 1971. “Raymond
d’Aguilers, historien de la prèmière croisade.” Journal des
Savants 1971, n.3: 206–212.
Grabois, Aryeh. 1997. “La
bibliothèque du noble d’ “Outremer” à Acre dans la seconde moitié du XIIIe
siècle.” Le Moyen
Age 103: 53–66.
Hamilton, Bernhard. 1980. The
Latin Church in the Crusader States: The Secular
Church. London: Variorum Publications.
. 2000. The
Leper King and His Heirs: Baldwin IV and the Crusader Kingdom of
Jerusalem, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
. 2006. “Aimery
of Limoges, Latin Patriarch of Antioch (c.1142–c.1196), and the Unity of the
Church.” In East and West in the Medieval
Eastern Mediterranean. vol 1. Antioch from the Byzantine reconquest until the End of the Crusader
Principality, K. N. Ciggaar, M. Metcalf (eds.) 1–12. Leuven: Uitgiverej Peeters
Hiestand, Rudolph. 1984/1985. “Il
cronista medievale e il suo pubblico. Alcune osservazioni in margine alla storiografia sulle
crociate.” Annali della Facoltà di Lettere dell’Università di
Napoli 27: 207–227.
. 1988. “Plange,
Syon et Iudea – Historische Aussage und
Verfasserfrage.” Mittellateinisches
Jahrbuch 23: 126–142.
. 1994. “Un
centre intellectuel en Syrie du Nord? Notes sur la personnalité d’Aimery d’Antioche, Albert de
Tarse et Rorgo Fretellus.” Le Moyen
Age 100: 7–36.
. 1997. “Ein
unbekanntes Privileg Fürst Bohemunds II. von Antiochia für das Hospital vom März 1127 und die
Frügeschichte der antiochenischen Fürstenkanzlei.” Archiv für
Diplomatik 43: 27–46.
Issa, M. 2007. “La
conception de la croisade dans l’Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum
de Guillaume de Tyr et dans L’Estoire
d’Eracles
.” Mélanges de l’Ecole Française de Roma. Moyen
Ages 119: 347–359.
Jotischky, Andrew T. 1995. “Gerard
of Nazareth, John Bale and the Origins of the Carmelite
Order.” Journal of Ecclesiastical
History 46: 1–23.
1997. “Gerard
of Nazareth, Mary Magdalene and Latin Relations with the Greek Orthodox in the Crusader East in
the Twelfth
Century.” Levant 29: 217–226.
Kedar, Benjamin Z. 1983. “Gerard
of Nazareth, a Neglected Twelfth-Century Writer in the Latin East. A Contribution to Intellectual
and Monastic History of the Crusader States.” Dumbarton Oak
Papers 37: 55–77.
Kedar, Benjamin J. 1995. “Benvenutus
Grapheus of Jerusalem, an Oculist in the era of the
Crusades.” Israel Journal of the History of Medicine and
Science 11: 14–41.
Kedar, Benjamin Z. 2016a. “The
Eastern Christians in the Frankish Kingdom of Jerusalem: An
Overview.” In Crusaders and Franks:
Studies in the history of the Crusades and the Frankish Levant, Z. Kedar Benjamin, 143–153. Abingdon: Routledge
2016b. “Problems
in the Study of Trans-cultural Borrowing in the Frankish
Levant,” In Crusaders and Franks: Studies
in the history of the Crusades and the Frankish Levant, Z. Kedar Benjamin, 277–285. Abingdon: Routledge
Kohler, Ch. 1896. Ch.,
“Un nouveau récit de l’invention des patriarches Abraham, Isaac et Iacob à
Hebron.” Revue de l’Orient
Latin 4: 477–502.
. 1897. “
Rerum
et personarum quae in Actis Sanctorum Bollandistis et Analectis Bollandianis obviae ad
Orientem Latinum spectant index analyticus
.” Revue de
l’Orient
Latin 5: 460–561.
Lehmann, Paul. 1941. “Die
mittellateinischen Dichtungen der Prioren des Tempels von Jerusalem Acardus und
Gaufridus.” In Corona Quernea. Festgabe
Karl Strecker zum 80. Geburtstag dargebracht, E. E. Stengel (ed.), 296–330. Leipzig: Hiersemann Verlag.
Loud, Graham A., J. W. Cox. 2006. “The
Lost Autobiographical Chapter of William of Tyre’s Chronicle (book
XIX.12).” In The Crusades: An
Encyclopedia vol 4, Alan V. Murray (ed.), 1305–1308. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.
Madureira, M. 2008. “Le
chroniqueur et son public: Les versions latine et française de la Chronique de
Guillaume de Tyr.” In The Medieval
Chronicle vol 5 Kooper, E. (ed.), 161–174. Leiden: Brill.
Mayer, Hans E. 1962. Das
Itinerarium peregrinorum. Eine zeitgenössische englische Chronik zum dritten Kreuzzug in
ursprünglicher
Gestalt. Stuttgart: Verlag Hiersemann.
1993. “Die
Kanzlei von Fürsten von
Antiochia.” In. Varia Antiochena. Studien
zum Kreutzfarfürstentum Antiochia im 12. und fruhen 13.
Jahrhundert. 75–109. Hannover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung.
Micheau, François. 2000. “Les
médecins orientaux au service des princes
latins.” In Occident et Proche-Orient:
contacts scientifiques au temps des croisades, A. Tihon, I. Draelants, B. van den Abeele B. (eds.), 95–115. Turnhout: Brepols.
Minervini, Laura. 1999. “Produzione
e circolazione di manoscritti negli stati crociati: biblioteche e scriptoria
latini.” In Medioevo romanzo e orientale.
Il viaggio dei testi, A. Pioletti, F. Rizzo Nervo (eds.), 79–96. Soveria Mannelli: Rubettino.
. 2001. “Outremer,” In Lo
spazio letterario del Medioevo. Il Medioevo volgare, vol 1/2: La produzione del
testo, Piero Boitani, Mario Mancini, Alberto Vàrvaro (eds.), 611–648. Roma: Salerno Editrice.
. 2005. Lingue,
regno di Gerusalemme, in Enciclopedia
Federiciana, vol. 2, 186–187. Rome: Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana.
Mohring, H. 1984. “Zu
der Geschichte der orientalischen Herrscher des Willelm von
Tyrus.” Mittellateinisches
Jahrbuch 19: 170–183.
Murray, Allan V. 1997. “How
Norman was the Principality of Antioch? Prolegomena to the Study of the Origins of the Nobility of
a Crusader State.” In Family Trees and
the Roots of Politics, K. S. B. Keats-Rohan (ed.), 349–359. Woodbridge: Boydell Press.
Paravicini Bagliani, Agostino. 1991. Medicina
e scienze della natura alla corte dei papi nel
Duecento. Spoleto: Centro Italiano di Studi Sull’Alto Medioevo.
Prawer, Joshua. 1972. The
Crusaders’ Kingdom: European Colonialism in the Middle Ages. New York: Praeger Publishers.
Richard, Jean. 1994. “L’Orient
latin et le mond des
missions.” In Hagiographies vol. 1, G. Philippart (ed.), 189–198, Turnhout: Brepols.
Roggema, B. 2009. The
Legend of Sergius Bahira. Eastern Christian Apologetics and Apocalyptic in Response to
Islam. Leiden: Brill.
Rubin, J. 2014. “Burchard
of Mount Sion’s Descriptio Terrae Sanctae: A Newly Discovered Extended
Version.” Crusades 13: 173–190.
2018. “A
Missing Link in European Travel Literature: Burchard of Mount Sion’s Description of
Egypt.” Mediterranea: International Journal for the Transfer of
Knowledge 3: 55–90.
Rubin, J., C. Linde. 2014. “Western
Medicine for the Masters of Damascus: Benvenutus Grapheus’s
Experimenta.” Al-Masāq 26: 183–195.
Russo, Luigi. 2002. “Il
Liber di Raimondo d’Aguilers e il ritrovamento della Sacra Lancia
d’Antiochia.” Studi
Medievali 47: 785–837.
Simonelli, Fabio. 1997. “Fidenzio
da Padova.” In Dizionario Biografico
degli
Italiani vol 47, 412–414. Rome: Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana.
Spreckelmeyer, G. 1974. Das
Kreuzzugslied des lateinischen
Mittelalters. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag.
Steele, R. 1920. Secretum
Secretorum cum glossis et notulis. Tractatus brevis et utilis ad declarandum quedam obscure dicta
fratris
Rogeri. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Stella, Francesco. 2008. “Le
versificazioni latine della vita di Maometto. Dall’antiagiografia al romanzo
picaresco.” In Dichten als
Stoff-Vermittlung. Formen, Ziele, Wirkungen. Beiträge zur Praxis der Versifikation lateinischer
Texte im Mittelalter, P. Stotz (ed.), 119–149. Zurich: Chronos Verlag.
Stotz, Peter. 2013. Il
latino nel Medioevo. Guida allo studio di un’identità linguistica
europea. Serena Pirrotta, Luigi Ricci (trans.). Firenze: SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo.
Tessera, Maria R. 1999. “Guglielmo
di Tiro e Bernardo di Clairvaux: Uno sguardo da oltremare sulla seconda
crociata.” Aevum 73: 247–272.
