LEADER 04360nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910463233303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-0248-1 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812202489 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418198 035 $a(OCoLC)859160676 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748453 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001053304 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11678282 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001053304 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11114172 035 $a(PQKB)11127913 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442076 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26727 035 $a(DE-B1597)449106 035 $a(OCoLC)1013936911 035 $a(OCoLC)979968268 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812202489 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442076 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748453 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682356 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418198 100 $a20050924d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMedieval boundaries$b[electronic resource] $erethinking difference in Old French literature /$fSharon Kinoshita 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (321 p.) 225 1 $aThe Middle Ages series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-51074-1 311 $a0-8122-3919-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [287]-303) and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $tPART I. EPIC REVISIONS -- $t1. "Pagans Are Wrong and Christians Are Right" -- $t2. The Politics of Courtly Love -- $tPART II. ROMANCES OF ASSIMILATION -- $t3. "In the Beginning Was the Road" -- $t4. Colonial Possessions -- $tPART III. CRISIS AND CHANGE IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY -- $tIntroduction -- $t5. Brave New Worlds -- $t6. The Romance of MiscegeNation -- $t7. Uncivil Wars -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tSelected Bibliography -- $tIndex -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn Medieval Boundaries, Sharon Kinoshita examines the role of cross-cultural contact in twelfth- and early thirteenth-century French literature. Starting from the observation that many of the earliest and best-known works of the French literary tradition are set on or beyond the borders of the French-speaking world, she reads the Chanson de Roland, the lais of Marie de France, and a variety of other texts in an expanded geographical frame that includes the Iberian peninsula, the Welsh marches, and the eastern Mediterranean. In Kinoshita's reconceptualization of the geographical and cultural boundaries of the medieval West, such places become significant not only as sites of conflict but also as spaces of intense political, economic, and cultural negotiation.An important contribution to the emerging field of medieval postcolonialism, Kinoshita's work explores the limitations of reading the literature of the French Middle Ages as an inevitable link in the historical construction of modern discourses of Orientalism, colonialism, race, and Christian-Muslim conflict. Rather, drawing on recent historical and art historical scholarship, Kinoshita uncovers a vernacular culture at odds with official discourses of crusade and conquest. Situating each work in its specific context, she brings to light the lived experiences of the knights and nobles for whom this literature was first composed and-in a series of close readings informed by postcolonial and feminist theory-demonstrates that literary representations of cultural encounters often provided the pretext for questioning the most basic categories of medieval identity.Awarded honorable mention for the 2007 Modern Language Association Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies 410 0$aMiddle Ages series. 606 $aFrench literature$yTo 1500$xHistory and criticism 606 $aProvenc?al literature$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFrench literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aProvenc?al literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a840.9/001 700 $aKinoshita$b Sharon$0518439 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463233303321 996 $aMedieval boundaries$9841117 997 $aUNINA