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L’Estoire d’Eracles in Outremer
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William of Tyre’s Latin history of the first crusade, the Historia rebus in partibus transmarinis gestarum, was first written in the late twelfth century and then swiftly translated into Old French within a generation of the author’s death. The French-language translation, called L'Estoire d'Eracles, was copied and recopied multiple times in both the West and in the Levant over the course of the next hundred years. Several of the changes introduced by the translator for his western audience also changed the narrative’s perspective, serving as a powerful example of how French-language texts bridged the distance between communities located in the Levant and those in the Christian West.
Title: L’Estoire d’Eracles in Outremer
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William of Tyre’s Latin history of the first crusade, the Historia rebus in partibus transmarinis gestarum, was first written in the late twelfth century and then swiftly translated into Old French within a generation of the author’s death.
The French-language translation, called L'Estoire d'Eracles, was copied and recopied multiple times in both the West and in the Levant over the course of the next hundred years.
Several of the changes introduced by the translator for his western audience also changed the narrative’s perspective, serving as a powerful example of how French-language texts bridged the distance between communities located in the Levant and those in the Christian West.
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