City lament, the: jerusalem across the medieval mediterranean
Auteur :
Boyadjian, Tamar M.
Éditeur :
Cornell University Press
ISBN :
9781501730535
Date de publication :
15 déc. 2018
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 2,2 cm
Poids :
907 g
Format :
Paper over boards
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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. In The City Lament, Tamar M. Boyadjian traces the trajectory of...