03351nam 2200625 450 991038315640332120190107113010.01-4744-2523-21-4744-3854-71-4744-2525-91-4744-2524-0(CKB)4100000007141290(MiAaPQ)EBC5571022(StDuBDS)EDZ0001979067(Au-PeEL)EBL5571022(OCoLC)1065421966(ScCtBLL)1177f023-7265-4545-b32c-b223a1625ceb(DE-B1597)615543(DE-B1597)9781474425247(EXLCZ)99410000000714129020181204d2017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMedieval empires and the culture of competition literary duels at Islamic and Christian courts /Samuel EnglandEdinburgh :Edinburgh University Press,2019.1 online resource (viii, 230 pages)Edinburgh scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 2017.1-4744-2522-4 Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-224) and index.Introduction: courtly gifts, imperial rewards -- 'Baghdad is to cities what the master is to mankind': the rise of vizier culture -- The sovereign and the foreign: creating Saladin in Arabic literature of the Counter-Crusade -- Alfonso X: poetry of miracles and domination -- Saladino Rinato: Spanish and Italian courtly fictions of Crusade -- Conclusion: the Ministry of Culture."A probing inquiry into medieval court struggles, this book shows the relationship between intellectual conflict and the geopolitics of empire. It examines the Persian Buyids' takeover of the great Arab caliphate in Iraq, the counter-Crusade under Saladin, and the literature of sovereignty in Spain and Italy at the cusp of the Renaissance. The question of high culture--who best qualified as a poet, the function of race and religion in forming a courtier, what languages to use in which official ceremonies--drove much of medieval writing, and even policy itself. From the last moments of the Abbasid Empire, to the military campaign for Jerusalem, to the rise of Crusades literature in spoken Romance languages, authors and patrons took a competitive stance as a way to assert their place in a shifting imperial landscape."--Back cover.Edinburgh scholarship online.Courts and courtiersHistoryTo 1500Authors, MedievalLanguageLanguage and languagesPolitical aspectsHistoryTo 1500Politics and literatureHistoryTo 1500Literature, MedievalHistory and criticismCourts and courtiersHistoryAuthors, MedievalLanguage.Language and languagesPolitical aspectsHistoryPolitics and literatureHistoryLiterature, MedievalHistory and criticism.909.07England Samuel993633MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910383156403321Medieval empires and the culture of competition2275234UNINA