The City Lament: Jerusalem Across the Medieval Mediterranean

ISBN-13: 9781501730535 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 216 str.

Tamar M. Boyadjian

Opis

Poetic elegies for lost or fallen cities are seemingly as old as cities themselves. In the Judeo-Christian tradition, this genre finds its purest expression in the Book of Lamentations, which mourns the destruction of Jerusalem; in Arabic, this genre is known as the ritha' al-mudun. The City Lament, Tamar M. Boyadjian traces the trajectory of...