Contextualizing the Muslim other in medieval Christian discourse
By: edited by Jerold C. Frakes
Series: The new Middle Ages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780230111431
Subjects: Islam and literature; RELIGION / Judaism / History; Muslims in literature; Christian literature; History and criticism; Medieval Literature; Other (Philosophy) in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval; History
Description: "This volume broadens the perspective of recent work on the discourse of the Muslim Other in medieval Christendom by investigating pertinent texts, art, and artifacts in Armenian, Old Irish and Breton, Old Norse, Serbo-Croatian, Middle English, Old French, Middle High German, and Spanish culture, situating these local discourses of the Muslim Other in the larger cultural context of proto-Eurocentric discourse"--
Table of contents: title: Medieval miscegenation: hybridity and the anxiety of inheritance / Lynn Ramey; title: Celts seen as Muslims and Muslims seen by Celts in medieval literature / Matthieu Boyd; title: Christian enclosure and the spatial transmission of Islamic alterity in the twelfth-century West / Prester John; title: Mapping the Muslims: images of Islam in Middle High German literature of the thirteenth century / David F. Tinsley; title: Conflicted coexistence: Christian-Muslim interaction and its representation in medieval Armenia / Sergio La Porta; title: Don Quijote attacks his Muslim other: the Maese Pedro episode of Don Quijote / Baltasar Fra-Molinero; title: From medieval to modern: the myth of Kosovo, the Turks, and Montenegro (a Lacanian interpretation) / Zdenko Zlatar.