Mireille Issa  MIREILLE ISSA  MIREILLE ISSA is a Lebanese medievalist born in Beirut. She studies the late Latin period of antiquity. After finishing her studies at the Sorbonne, MIREILLE ISSA taught Latin at the Université Saint-Esprit in Kaslik, Lebanon. A member of several international literary societies and organisations, engaged in the study of medieval literature and of the literary history of the crusades as told by their principal chroniclers such as Guillaume de Tyr (William of Tyre) & Jacques de Vitry, she has also investigated travel narrative texts of the post-crusade period, as well as the Latin dissertations written by German and French humanists of the 17th and 18th centuries, and retracing the life of the law school in Béryte. In her translations, she has focused on Maronite religious literature written in Latin, whose founders were the disciples of the Collège Maronite founded in 1584.