Saracens and the making of English identity
Subtitle: the Auchinleck manuscript
By: by Siobhain Bly Calkin.
Series: Studies in medieval history and culture
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Auchinleck manuscript.; English literature -- Islamic influences.; Islam and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500.; National characteristics, English, in literature.; Romances, English -- History and criticism.; Romances, English -- Manuscripts.; Manuscripts, Medieval -- England.; Manuscripts, English (Middle); Saracens in literature.; Crusades in literature.; Islamic Empire -- Foreign public opinion, English.; Islamic Empire -- In literature.
Other titles: Auchinleck manuscript.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The perils of proximity: Saracen knights, sameness, and differentiation; title: Saracens and she-wolves: foreign consorts and group identity; title: Monstrous intermingling and miraculous conversion: negotiating cultural borders in the King of Tars; title: Saracens and English Christian identity in Seynt Katerine and Seynt Mergrete; title: Saracens, Englishness, and productive violence in Of Arthour and Of Merlin