The City Lament: Jerusalem across the Medieval Mediterranean, by Tamar M. Boyadjian

Tamar M. Boyadjian, The City Lament: Jerusalem across the Medieval Mediterranean. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018. Pp. xviii+193. ISBN 978-1-5017-3053-5.In the wake of Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell or even (some would argue) since Fernand Braudel and Shelomo Dov Goitein, the pre-modern Mediterranean has been understood as a region which was by no means culturally homogenous but which still constituted a unity precisely in its fragmentation. This first book by Tamar M. Boyadjian, Assistant Professor of Medieval Literature at Michigan State University, is a contribution to the field as it is dedicated to the topic