Constantinople and the West in Medieval French Literature

Rima Devereaux

earliest edition we have, 2012 Boydell & Brewer, Limited, 2012 248 pages

"Medieval France saw Constantinople as something of a quintessential ideal city. Aspects of Byzantine life were imitated in and assimilated to the West in a movement of political and cultural renewal, but the Byzantine capital was also celebrated as the locus of a categorical and inimitable difference. This book analyses the debate between renewal and utopia in Western attitudes to Constantinople as it evolved throug...

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Constantinople and the West in Medieval French Literature edition · 2012 · Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated · 9781280377785
Constantinople and the West in Medieval French Literature edition · 2012 · Boydell & Brewer, Limited · 248 pages · 9781843843023
Constantinople and the West in Medieval French Literature edition · 2012 · Boydell & Brewer, Limited · 248 pages · 9781846158582

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