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Rhetoricizing Effeminacy in Twelfth-Century Outremer: William of Tyre and the Byzantine Empire

The article analyzes references to the effeminacy of the Greeks in the Historia Ierosolymitana of the Kingdom of Jerusalem's court historian William of Tyre (ca. 1130-1186). It shows that rather than having a firm belief in the character deficiencies of the Greeks, William employed the topos only in a specific context: narrating episodes where the Byzantine Empire challenged the role of the Latins as the protectors of the Holy Land.

William of Tyre ; Byzantine Empire ; medieval historiography ; effeminacy

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