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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465076103321

Titolo

Meeting the foreign in the Middle Ages / / edited by Albrecht Classen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

0-203-95135-2

1-135-30987-6

1-135-30980-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

ClassenAlbrecht

Disciplina

305.800902

Soggetti

Noncitizens - Europe - Public opinion - History - To 1500

Noncitizens in literature

Civilization, Medieval

Minorities - Europe - History - To 1500

Literature, Medieval - History and criticism

Marvelous, The, in literature

Electronic books.

Europe Civilization Foreign influences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2002 by Routledge.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction: The Self, the Other, and Everything in Between: Xenological Phenomenology of the Middle Ages; Chapter 1 The Saracen and the Martyr: Embracing the Foreign in Hrotsvit's Pelagius; Chapter 2 Foreigner, Foe, and Neighbor: The Religious Cult as a Forum For Political Reconciliation; Chapter 3 Hungarians as Vremde in Medieval Germany; Chapter 4 The Face of the Foreigner in Medieval German Courtly Literature; Chapter 5 Visitors from Another Space: The Medieval Revenant as Foreigner

Chapter 6 The Foreigner Within: The Subject of Abjection in Sir GowtherChapter 7 Sir Gowther: Imagining Race in Late Medieval England; Chapter 8 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; Chapter 9 Cannibal



Diplomacy: Otherness in the Middle English Text Richard Coer de Lion; Chapter 10 Anselm Turmeda: The Visionary Humanism of a Muslim Convert and Catalan Prophet

Chapter 11 Social Bodies and the Non-Christian 'Other' in the Twelfth Century: John of Salisbury and Peter of CelleChapter 12 Religious Geography: Designating Jews and Muslims as Foreigners in Medieval England; Chapter 13 Foreigners in Konrad von Würzburg's Partonopier und Meliur; Chapter 14 The Intimate Other: Hans Folz's Dialogue between "Christian and Jew"; Contributors; Index