Contextualizing the Muslim Other in Medieval Christian Discourse

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Springer, Oct 27, 2011 - Literary Criticism - 182 pages
Broadens 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
The Myth of Kosovo The Turks and Montenegro A Lacanian Interpretation
139
Afterword
171
List of Contributors
179
Index
181
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JEROLD C. FRAKES Professor of English at SUNY Buffalo, USA.

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