Title Saracens and the Making of English Identity : the Auchinleck Manuscript

Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (313 pages) Series Studies in Medieval History and Culture Studies in medieval history and culture. Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; MUSLIMS, SARACENS AND MEDIEVALISTS; THE AUCHINLECK MANUSCRIPT; IMAGINING ENGLISHNESS IN THE EARLY FOURTEENTH CENTURY; SARACENS AND THE MAKING OF ENGLISH IDENTITY; Chapter One The Perils of Proximity: Saracen Knights, Sameness, and Differentiation; INTRODUCTION; ENGLISH AND FRENCH POLITICAL PROXIMITY; ENGLISH AND FRENCH CULTURAL PROXIMITY; SAMENESS AND SARACENS; SAMENESS AND INTERPELLATIONS OF ALTERNATE IDENTITIES; WILLED DIFFERENTIATION WILLED IDENTITIES AND THE AUCHINLECK MANUSCRIPTTHE LIMITATIONS OF WILL: ALLEGIANCES, HIERARCHIES, AND WILLING AWRY; FRATERNIZING WITH THE ENEMY; DA CAPO AL FINE; Chapter Two Saracens and She-Wolves: Foreign Consorts and Group Identity; INTRODUCTION; THE SARACEN PRINCESS AND THE FOREIGN QUEEN; PERFORMING IDENTITY; PERMANENCE AND PASSING; AFFIRMATION; CODA: GOOD QUEEN/BAD QUEEN; Chapter Three Monstrous Intermingling and Miraculous Conversion: Negotiating Cultural Borders in Pe King of Tars; INTRODUCTION; INTEGRATING FOREIGNERS AND APPEALING TO ""INGLISCH"" IDENTITY THE LITERARY HISTORY OF PE KING OF TARSDEFINING, CONSTRUCTING, AND PROBLEMATIZING CULTURAL BORDERS IN PEKING OF TARS; MONSTROUS INTERMINGLING; CODA: AN ALTERNATE AUCHINLECK VISION OF CULTURAL INTEGRATION; Chapter Four Saracens and English Christian Identity in Seynt Katerine and Seynt Mergrete; INTRODUCTION; CONTEXTUALIZING SEYNT KATERINE, SEYNT MERGRETE, AND THE SARACENS THEREIN; SARACEN PERSECUTORS, THE AUCHINLECK CONTEXT, AND CHRISTIAN ENGLISH IDENTITY; SARACEN PERSECUTORS AND THE ELUCIDATION OF MODEL CHRISTIAN BEHAVIOR; SARACENS AND MUSLIMS; REJECTION AND IMAGINATIVE REDRESS CODA: CHRISTIANITY AND THE NEED FOR PERSECUTION ON DEMANDChapter Five Saracens, Englishness, and Productive Violence in OfArthour and Of Merlin; INTRODUCTION; THE TEXTUAL ORIGINS OF OFARTHOURAND OF MERLIN AND ITS SARACENS; ARTHURIAN SARACENS AND THE REPRESENTATION OF ENGLISH IDENTITY; SARACENS AND ENGLAND'S CRUSADING HERITAGE; SARACENS, HISTORY, AND THE HYBRID NATURE OF ENGLISH IDENTITY; THE BLESSINGS OF THE BAD PENNY: SARACENS, PRODUCTIVE VIOLENCE, AND ENGLISH POLITICAL IDENTITY; CODA: VERNACULARITY, VIOLENCE, AND THE PROLOGUE; Conclusion; Notes; NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION NOTES TO CHAPTER ONENOTES TO CHAPTER TWO; NOTES TO CHAPTER THREE; NOTES TO CHAPTER FOUR; NOTES TO CHAPTER FIVE; NOTES TO THE CONCLUSION; Appendix; ITEMS CONTAINED IN THE AUCHINLECK MANUSCRIPT; Bibliography; MEDIEVAL TEXTS; SECONDARY TEXTS; Subject Index Summary This book explores the ways in which discourses of religious, racial, and national identity blur and engage each other in the medieval West. Specifically, the book studies depictions of Muslims in England during the 1330s and argues that these depictions, although historically inaccurate, served to enhance and advance assertions of English national identity at this time. The book examines Saracen characters in a manuscript renowned for the variety of its texts, and discusses hagiographic legends, elaborations of chronicle entries, and popular romances about Charlemagne, Arthur, and various Eng Notes Print version record SUBJECT Auchinleck manuscript. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81042323 Auchinleck manuscript fast Subject English literature -- Islamic influences. Islam and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500 National characteristics, English, in literature. Romances, English -- History and criticism Romances, English -- Manuscripts Manuscripts, Medieval -- England Manuscripts, English (Middle) Saracens in literature. Crusades in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Crusades in literature English literature -- Islamic influences Islam and literature Literature Manuscripts, English (Middle) Manuscripts, Medieval National characteristics, English, in literature Public opinion, English Romances, English Saracens in literature SUBJECT Islamic Empire -- Foreign public opinion, English Islamic Empire -- In literature Subject England Islamic Empire Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Manuscripts Form Electronic book ISBN 9781135471644 1135471649

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