East and West in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean III: Antioch from the Byzantine Reconquest until the End of the Crusader Principality (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta)

The complexity of the multi-ethnic and multi-cultural society of the Eastern Mediterranean world asks for research on a wide variety of topics. Three unique documents, preserved or produced in the West, reflect an interest in this world: a Latin-Armenian list of words (Jos Weitenberg) , a Middle Dutch Song (Lied) of Antioch, possibly a daughter of the French Chanson d'Antioch (Geert Claassens) and a late sixteenth-century Ortelian map with a panorama of Antioch (Marita Wijntjes) . Laments on Antioch and Tripoli are discussed by Tamar Boyadjian and Floris Sepmeijer, who made a new translation of the Arabic text of Solomon of Ashluh. Numerous prophesies on the Fall of Tripoli were brought together (Krijnie Ciggaar) . Latins and Eastern Christians, occasionally Mongols, met in the East (Felicitas Schmieder and Alan Murray) . Western and Eastern sponsors had their portraits painted in sanctuaries (Mat Immerzeel) . In his study, which reads as a detective, Yuri Pyatnicky traces the fate of the two missing cloisonné enamels that once adorned the book cover and the manuscript od the famous Vardzia Gospel.