The French of Outremer: Communities and Communication in the Crusading Mediterranean

Date/Time
Date(s) - 29 Mar 2014 until 30 Mar 2014
7:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Location
Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus

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A wide range of French-language writings were created and circulated in the lands of Outremer from the years following the First Crusade until the sixteenth century. Inhabitants of the Latin East used French for histories, legal treatises, poetic and lyric works, letters, lands transfers, arbitrations, moral tracts, and pilgrimage guides, among other texts, but also in less expected places, such as on coins, buildings, or funerary slabs.  Given the wide disciplinary scope of these sources, this conference will bring together scholars from multiple perspectives to discuss how and why French was used in Outremer, and to consider the ways that the French language shaped or transmitted identity in the Latin East during this time. As an extension of Fordham’s French of Outremer Project and associated website, the conference will feature both traditional and born-digital projects, and will encourage new methods to examine the French-language texts and contexts of Outremer.

The conference program is comprised of over fifty speakers coming from North America, the Middle East and Europe, including three plenary sessions: 

Online registration is available; paper registration is also available. Please send the paper registration form and check to 
Center for Medieval Studies, FMH 405, Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458

 For more information or to register online, see our website at: http://www.fordham.edu/mvst/conference14/index.html