LEADER 03351nam 2200625 450 001 9910383156403321 005 20190107113010.0 010 $a1-4744-2523-2 010 $a1-4744-3854-7 010 $a1-4744-2525-9 010 $a1-4744-2524-0 035 $a(CKB)4100000007141290 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5571022 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001979067 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5571022 035 $a(OCoLC)1065421966 035 $a(ScCtBLL)1177f023-7265-4545-b32c-b223a1625ceb 035 $a(DE-B1597)615543 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781474425247 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007141290 100 $a20181204d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMedieval empires and the culture of competition $eliterary duels at Islamic and Christian courts /$fSamuel England 210 1$aEdinburgh :$cEdinburgh University Press,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 230 pages) 225 1 $aEdinburgh scholarship online 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2017. 311 $a1-4744-2522-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 188-224) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $a"A probing inquiry into medieval court struggles, this book shows the relationship between intellectual conflict and the geopolitics of empire. It examines the Persian Buyids' takeover of the great Arab caliphate in Iraq, the counter-Crusade under Saladin, and the literature of sovereignty in Spain and Italy at the cusp of the Renaissance. The question of high culture--who best qualified as a poet, the function of race and religion in forming a courtier, what languages to use in which official ceremonies--drove much of medieval writing, and even policy itself. From the last moments of the Abbasid Empire, to the military campaign for Jerusalem, to the rise of Crusades literature in spoken Romance languages, authors and patrons took a competitive stance as a way to assert their place in a shifting imperial landscape."--Back cover. 410 0$aEdinburgh scholarship online. 606 $aCourts and courtiers$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aAuthors, Medieval$xLanguage 606 $aLanguage and languages$xPolitical aspects$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aPolitics and literature$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aLiterature, Medieval$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aCourts and courtiers$xHistory 615 0$aAuthors, Medieval$xLanguage. 615 0$aLanguage and languages$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature, Medieval$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a909.07 700 $aEngland$b Samuel$0993633 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910383156403321 996 $aMedieval empires and the culture of competition$92275234 997 $aUNINA