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Meeting the foreign in the Middle Ages /

"This collection brings together an outstanding group of historical, cultural, and literary scholars to investigate the complicated, nuanced, and often surprising union and desire and dread associated with the figure of the foreign Other in the Middle Ages--represented variously by Muslims, Jew...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Classen, Albrecht (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the self, the other, and everything in between: xenological phenomenology of the Middle Ages / Albrecht Classen
  • The Saracen and the martyr: embracing the foreign in Hrotsvit's Pelagius / Lisa Weston
  • Foreigner, foe, and neighbor: the religious cult as a forum for political reconciliation / Michael Goodrich
  • Hungarians as vremde in medieval Germany / Alexander Sager
  • The face of the foreigner in medieval German courtly literature / David F. Tinsley
  • Visitors from another space: the medieval revenant as foreigner / Aline G. Hornaday
  • The foreigner within: the subject of abjection in Sir Gowther / Michael Uebel
  • Sir Gowther: imagining race in late medieval England / Jesus Montaño
  • Margins in Middle English romance: culture and characterization in The Awntyrs off Arthure at the terne wathelyne and The wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell / Jean E. Jost
  • Cannibal diplomacy: otherness in the Middle English text Richard Coer de Lion / Leona F. Cordery
  • Anselm Turmeda: the visionary humanism of a Muslim convert and Catalan prophet / Lourdes María Alvarez
  • Social bodies and the non-Christian 'other' in the twelfth century: John of Salisbury and Peter of Celle / Cary J. Nederman
  • religious geography: designating Jews and Muslims as foreigners in medieval England / David B. Leshock
  • Foreigners in Konrad von Würzburg's Partonopier und Meliur / Albrecht Classen
  • The intimate other: Hans Folz's dialogue between "Christian and Jew" / Winfried Frey.