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“Le Pas Saladin”: From history to legend (13th–14th centuries)
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2020-1-41-56
Abstract
The article is devoted to a little-known historical poem on the Third Crusade (‘Le Pas Saladin’). This literary work, which was very popular during the Middle Ages, is considered to be based on true facts concerning the history of the Battle of Jaffa (1192). The aim of the article is to place the poem in a broader context, in order to see how, within the text of the ‘Pas Saladin’, history devolves into legend and how actual events are deliberately distorted and reinterpreted by an unknown narrator. The author of the article admits that the process of reconsidering the history of the famous battle could be related to the European search for political and national identity.
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S. I. LuchitskayaRussian Federation
Svetlana I. Luchitskaya, Dr. of Sci. (History), leading researcher
bld. 32a, Leninskii Av., Moscow, 125993
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For citation: Luchitskaya S.I. “Le Pas Saladin”: From history to legend (13th–14th centuries). RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2020;(1):41-56. https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2020-1-41-56
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