Meeting the Foreign in the Middle Ages

ISBN-13: 9781138011557 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 304 str.

Albrecht Classen;¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

This collectoion brings together an outstanding group of historical, cultural, and literary scholars to investigate the complicated, nuanced, and often surprising union and desire and dread associated with the figure of the foreign Other in the Middle Ages--represented variously by Muslims, Jews, heretics, pagans, homosexuals, lepers, monsters, and witches. Exploring the diverse manifestations of the foreign in medieval literature, historical documents, religous treatises, and art, these essays mine the traces of unprecedented encounters in which fascination and fear meet.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Self, the Other, and Everything in Between: Xenological Phenomenology of the Middle Ages, Albrecht Classen 1. The Saracen and the Martyr: Embracing the Foreign/er in Hrotsvit's Pelagius, Lisa Weston 2. Foreigner, Foe and Neighbor: The Religious Cult as a Forum for Political Reconciliation, Michael Goodich 3. Hungarians as vremde in Medieval Germany, Alexander Sager 4. The Face of the Foreigner in Medieval German Courtly Literature, David F. Tinsley 5. Visitors from Another Space: The Medieval Revenant as Foreigner, Aline G. Hornaday 6. The Foreigner Within: The Subject of Abjection in Sir Gowther, Michael Uebel 7. Sir Gowther: Imagining Race in Late Mediebal England, Jesus Montaño 8. Cannibal Diplomacy: Otherness in the Middle English Text Richard Coer de Lion, Leona F. Cordery 9. Anselm Turmeda: The Visionary Humanism of a Muslim Convert and Catalan Prophet, Lourdes Maria Alvarez 10. Social Bodies and the Non-Christian Other in the Twelfth Century: John of Salisbury and Peter of Celle, Cary J. Nederman 11. Religious Geography: Designating Jews and Muslims as Foreigners in Medieval England, David B. Leshock 12. Foreigners in Konrad von Würzburg's Partonopier und Meliur, Albrecht Classen 13. The Intimate Other: The Dialogue between A Christian and a Jew by Hans Folz, Winfried Frey List of Illustrations The Authors Index

O autorze

Albert Classen, PhD., is Professor of German at the University of Arizona.