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Contextualizing the Muslim other in medieval Christian discourse
Title
Contextualizing the Muslim other in medieval Christian discourse / edited by Jerold C. Frakes.
ISBN
9780230111431 (hardback)
0230111432 (hardback)
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Physical Description
xx, 182 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Summary
"This volume broadens the perspective of recent work on the discourse of the Muslim Other in medieval Christendom by investigating pertinent texts, art, and artifacts in Armenian, Old Irish and Breton, Old Norse, Serbo-Croatian, Middle English, Old French, Middle High German, and Spanish culture, situating these local discourses of the Muslim Other in the larger cultural context of proto-Eurocentric discourse"--Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 02, 2012
Series
The new Middle Ages
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Medieval miscegenation: hybridity and the anxiety of inheritance / Lynn Ramey
Celts seen as Muslims and Muslims seen by Celts in medieval literature / Matthieu Boyd
Christian enclosure and the spatial transmission of Islamic alterity in the twelfth-century West / Prester John
Mapping the Muslims: images of Islam in Middle High German literature of the thirteenth century / David F. Tinsley
Conflicted coexistence: Christian-Muslim interaction and its representation in medieval Armenia / Sergio La Porta
Don Quijote attacks his Muslim other: the Maese Pedro episode of Don Quijote / Baltasar Fra-Molinero
From medieval to modern: the myth of Kosovo, the Turks, and Montenegro (a Lacanian interpretation) / Zdenko Zlatar.
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