Description: Making the East Latin analyzes the literary and rhetorical techniques of varied sources, revealing the ways Crusader settlers responded to their new environment while maintaining ties with their homelands and produced a hybrid Latin literature that soon emerged as an indispensable part of the literary history of both the Near East and of Europe.
Brief description: Julian Yolles is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Medieval Literature at the University of Southern Denmark.
Review Quotes: This book is essential reading for any student or scholar seeking an entrée into the textual output and intellectual culture of the twelfth-century Latin East.--Beth C. Spacey "Crusades" (1/3/2024 12:00:00 AM)