Sheba's Daughters
Subtitle: Whitening and Demonizing the Saracen Woman in Medieval French Epic (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: April 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780815330189
Subjects: European history: c 500 to c 1500; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Other prose: classical, early & medieval; Poetry & poets; Women's studies; Literature - Classics / Criticism; French Poetry; French; Literary Criticism; Europe; Saracens in literature; Continental European; European - French; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Epic poetry, French; History and criticism; To 1500
First sentence: The power of art, the magician, to "bring about that black becomes white," among other transformations of the undesirable to the desirable, is precisely the theme of this study.