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Autore: | Calkin Siobhain Bly <1973-, > |
Titolo: | Saracens and the making of English identity : the Auchinleck manuscript / / Siobhain Bly Calkin |
Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2005 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
Disciplina: | 820.9/38297 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
Soggetto geografico: | Islamic Empire Foreign public opinion, English |
Islamic Empire In literature | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-292) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | The perils of proximity: Saracen knights, sameness, and differentiation -- Saracens and she-wolves: foreign consorts and group identity -- Monstrous intermingling and miraculous conversion: negotiating cultural borders in the King of Tars -- Saracens and English Christian identity in Seynt Katerine and Seynt Mergrete -- Saracens, Englishness, and productive violence in Of Arthour and Of Merlin. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Saracens and the making of English identity |
ISBN: | 1-135-47171-1 |
0-415-80309-8 | |
0-203-95852-7 | |
1-135-47164-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910807246903321 |
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