| Description |
1 online resource (lxxiii, 274 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"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, Jews, heretics, pagans, homosexuals, lepers, monsters, and witches. Exploring the diverse manifestations of the foreign in medieval literature, historical documents, religious treatises, and art, these essays mine the traces of unprecedented encounters in which fascination and fear meet."--EBook Central |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 18, 2016) |
| Subject |
Noncitizens -- Europe -- Public opinion -- History -- To 1500
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Noncitizens in literature.
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Civilization, Medieval.
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Minorities -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
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Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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Marvelous, The, in literature.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Noncitizens in literature
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Noncitizens -- Public opinion
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Civilization -- Foreign influences
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Civilization, Medieval
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Literature, Medieval
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Marvelous, The, in literature
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Minorities
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Civilization -- Foreign influences
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| Subject |
Europe
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Classen, Albrecht, editor
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| ISBN |
9781135309800 |
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1135309809 |
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9780203951354 |
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0203951352 |
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9781135309879 |
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1135309876 |
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