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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 6460337, member: 110504"]Very cool writeup and coin, [USER=81887]@Parthicus[/USER]. A fascinating period, for all the reasons you've given.</p><p>Just to broaden the picture a little bit, the 12th-earlier 13th c. CE was a kind of golden age for Christian-Muslim relations around the Mediterranean. --However ironically, in other contexts. Despite ongoing, but intermittent conflict, similar cultural interchange was taking place to either side of Sicily, in Iberia and the Frankish Levant. In both the other contexts, Franks were imitating local Islamic coins, and actively appropriating elements of Islamic culture on other levels. (Edit: )...Not to mention pursuing alliances with local Muslim polities against other neighboring Christian ones. ...When crusaders, in the literal sense, showed up in Palestine, they were routinely shocked by the level to which the permanent, settled Franks had appropriated the surrounding ethos.</p><p>One especially dramatic convergence of two of these threads happened under Friedrich II, son of Heinrich VI and Constanza, the Hauteville heress of Norman Sicily (1215-1250). Having grown up mainly in Sicily, he fully imbibed the milieu. On the Sixth Crusade, he proceeded to effect the return of Jerusalem itself to the Franks. For the second and last time. Purely by diplomacy --yes, backed by an army, but conducted conspicuously in Arabic.</p><p>It's only later in the 13th century that the lines start to really harden, culturally as well as militarily.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 6460337, member: 110504"]Very cool writeup and coin, [USER=81887]@Parthicus[/USER]. A fascinating period, for all the reasons you've given. Just to broaden the picture a little bit, the 12th-earlier 13th c. CE was a kind of golden age for Christian-Muslim relations around the Mediterranean. --However ironically, in other contexts. Despite ongoing, but intermittent conflict, similar cultural interchange was taking place to either side of Sicily, in Iberia and the Frankish Levant. In both the other contexts, Franks were imitating local Islamic coins, and actively appropriating elements of Islamic culture on other levels. (Edit: )...Not to mention pursuing alliances with local Muslim polities against other neighboring Christian ones. ...When crusaders, in the literal sense, showed up in Palestine, they were routinely shocked by the level to which the permanent, settled Franks had appropriated the surrounding ethos. One especially dramatic convergence of two of these threads happened under Friedrich II, son of Heinrich VI and Constanza, the Hauteville heress of Norman Sicily (1215-1250). Having grown up mainly in Sicily, he fully imbibed the milieu. On the Sixth Crusade, he proceeded to effect the return of Jerusalem itself to the Franks. For the second and last time. Purely by diplomacy --yes, backed by an army, but conducted conspicuously in Arabic. It's only later in the 13th century that the lines start to really harden, culturally as well as militarily.[/QUOTE]
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