Vernacular and Latin literary discourses of the Muslim other in medieval Germany
By: Jerold C. Frakes
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The new Middle Ages; New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780230110878
Subjects: German literature; History and criticism; Medieval and modern Latin literature; Other (Philosophy) in literature; Muslims in literature
Description: Little attention has been focused on the representation of Muslims in medieval Germany. Proceeding from a grounded use of contemporary cultural theory and close textual analysis, this study analyzes the role of Muslims in several core texts representing drama, epic, and lyric written by the most important writers of medieval Germany. Far from simply adding medieval Germany to the growing scholarly list of the 'pre-post-colonializing' European cultures, this study provides important new perspectives.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-230) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Ludus as prelude; title: Discourses of the Muslim other; title: Muslims in Hrotsvit's Pelagius and the Ludus de Antichristo; title: Mandatory Muslim metamorphosis in crusader epic; title: Wolfram von Eschenbach, Gyburc, and tolerance; title: Walther von der Vogelweide, crusader lyric and the discourse of the other; title: A twelfth-century paradigm shift.