Contextualizing the Muslim Other in medieval Christian discourse

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Contextualizing the Muslim Other in medieval Christian discourse

edited by Jerold C. Frakes

(The new Middle Ages)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

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.

Table of Contents

  • Foreword
  • J.C.Frakes Medieval Miscegenation: Hybridity and the Anxiety of Inheritance
  • L.Ramey Celts Seen as Muslims and Muslims Seen by Celts in Medieval Literature
  • M.Boyd Prester John, Christian Enclosure and the Spatial Transmission of Islamic Alterity in the Twelfth Century West
  • C.Taylor Mapping the Muslims: Images of Islam in Middle High German Literature of the Thirteenth Century
  • D.F.Tinsley Conflicted Coexistence: Christian-Muslim Interaction and its Representation in Medieval Armenia
  • S.La Porta Don Quijote attacks his Muslim Other: The Maese Pedro Episode of Don Quijote
  • B.Fra-Molinero From Medieval to Modern: the Myth of Kosovo, 'The Turks,' and Montenegro (a Lacanian Interpretation)
  • Z.Zlatar Afterword
  • J.Tolan

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