The 'Histoire ancienne' and Dialectical Identity in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem

Autor:	Lisa Mahoney
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	Literature Dialectic History Visual Arts and Performing Arts Identity crisis business.industry media_common.quotation_subject medicine.disease Romance Capital (architecture) Kingdom Identity (philosophy) medicine business Relation (history of concept) Byzantine architecture Classics media_common
Zdroj:	Gesta. 49:31-51
ISSN:	2169-3099 0016-920X
DOI:	10.2307/41550536
Popis:	The Histoire ancienne jusqu'a Cesar is a historical account of events from Genesis to the Roman Republic. One version of this chronicle (London, British Library, MS Add. 15268), made in the capital of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem during the second half of the thirteenth century, contains illuminations noteworthy for their emendations to pictorial tradition and their calculated use of Byzantine formal elements. A close study of these characteristics shows them to be complementary devices with a common goal: laying claim to a magnificent past and marking the heroic figures and legendary deeds recounted within its pages as emphatically Christian. This emphasis distinguishes the London Histoire ancienne from its counterparts in the West, which take the secular form of romance or epic. It also points to an identity crisis provoked by close contact with the local Muslim population and the recognition that this "enemy" was more similar to than different from its Christian patron. This dialectical relation is e...
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