Cosmopolitanism or Competition?Late Medieval Pilgrims at the Eastern Christian Holy Places (original) (raw)

Études arméniennes contemporaines

W hilst the Crusades were once seen as a battle between Christians and Muslims, recent historiography has drawn our attention to the ambiguous role and status of Eastern Christian communities during this period. The consensus has emerged that the Franks and Europeans were initially hostile to local, Eastern Christians, particularly the Byzantine Greeks. However, the new Latin rulers rapidly developed a haphazard tolerance for, and accommodation with, the Greeks: Greek and Syrian monks were never expelled, pre-existing holy sites within the Church of the Holy Sepulchre were preserved, and, by the 1170s, Frankish and Greek interaction was reflected in liturgical and iconographical crossfertilisation. 1 Little studied, certainly from the European perspective, is the interaction of western European visitors with Eastern Christians after the Crusader period, especially in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. 2 I hope here to signal some avenues for further research and

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