Contextualizing the Muslim Other in Medieval Christian DiscourseBroadens the perspective of recent work on the discourse of the Muslim Other in medieval Christendom by investigating pertinent texts, art, and artefacts, situating these local discourses of the Muslim Other in the larger cultural context of proto-Eurocentric discourse. |
Contents
Hybridity and the Anxiety of Inheritance | 1 |
2 Celts Seen as Muslims and Muslims Seen by Celts in Medieval Literature | 21 |
3 Prester John Christian Enclosure and the Spatial Transmission of Islamic Alterity in the Twelfth Century West | 39 |
Images of Islam in Middle High German Literature of the Thirteenth Century | 64 |
Christian Muslim Interaction and Its Representation in Medieval Armenia | 103 |
The Maese Pedro Episode of Don Quijote | 124 |
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Contextualizing the Muslim Other in Medieval Christian Discourse J. Frakes No preview available - 2011 |
Contextualizing the Muslim Other in Medieval Christian Discourse J. Frakes No preview available - 2011 |
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