This is the third volume of the acta of a series of symposia held in Hernen Castle (Netherlands). Two earlier volumes were published under the same title East and West in the Crusader States: Context - Contacts - Confrontations (I and II, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 78 and 92). Cultural, social and religious contacts took place in the multi-ethnic society in Outremer. The various articles deal with religious and cultural encounters in the Crusader States where Byzantines, Syrian Orthodox, Georgians, Muslims, the Military Orders and many others met almost daily. Ethnographic attitudes, money changing hands, pilgrims' accommodation, icons and other forms of religious art are discussed here. Confrontation took place when new expeditions were organised (Alexandrian Crusade). The history of the Latin States is discussed in the context of Byzantine and Western sources. The first English translation of Constantine Manasses' Hodoiporikon is published in this volume.
| Ethnographic attitudes in the crusader states : the Franks and the indigenous Orthodox people | 1 | |
| The Abbey of Premontre - royal contacts, royal news : the context of the so-called Continuatio Praemonstratensis | 21 | |
| Georgians and Greeks in Jerusalem (1099-1310) | 35 | |
| Contacts between Syriac Orthodox and Latin military orders | 53 | |
| "The letter of love and concord" between Rome and Armenia : a case of forgery from the crusader period | 79 | |
| Saint Louis and the East Syrians, the dream of a terrestrial empire : East Syrian attitudes to the west | 101 | |
| The Alexandrian crusade (1365) and the Mamluk sources : reassessment of the kitab al-ilmam of an-Nuwayri al-Iskandarani | 123 | |
| Ein Zimmer mit Blick auf das Meer : Einige wenig beachtete Aspekte der Pilgerreisen ins Hl. Land im 12. und 13. Jahrhundert | 139 | |
| A Byzantine traveller to one of the crusader states | 165 | |
| East meets west, and money changes hands | 223 | |
| The Icon of the virgin Galaktotrophousa in the Coptic Monastery of St. Antony the Great at the Red Sea, Egypt : a preliminary note | 235 | |
| Divine cavalry : mounted saints in Middle Eastern Christian art | 265 |
Overview
This is the third volume of the acta of a series of symposia held in Hernen Castle (Netherlands). Two earlier volumes were published under the same title East and West in the Crusader States: Context - Contacts - Confrontations (I and II, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 78 and 92). Cultural, social and religious contacts took place in the multi-ethnic society in Outremer. The various articles deal with religious and cultural encounters in the Crusader States where Byzantines, Syrian Orthodox, Georgians, Muslims, ...