The Stranger in medieval society
By: F.R.P. Akehurst and Stephanie Cain Van D'Elden, editors.
Contributors: Akehurst, F. R. P.; Van D'Elden, Stephanie Cain.
Series: Medieval cultures ;; v. 12
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
Subjects: Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.; Strangers in literature.
Description: Whether welcome or unwelcome, voluntary or involuntary, strangers appear in every society; they leave their own communities, venture into new environments, confront differences, and often spark changes. The first collection in medieval studies to concentrate on the notion of the stranger, these essays show how outsiders influenced the culture of Europe in the Middle Ages.

Among the topics explored are Edward III and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as historical and literary instances of chivalric skill and courage; political conflict in the late French epic Renaut de Montauban; and a group of people who were doubly strangers - some thirty thousand Jews, who after being expelled from France in 1306 returned under an experimental agreement a few years later.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Selection of papers from a conference, held Feb. 1994, and sponsored by the Center for Medieval Studies at the University of Minnesota.
Table of contents: title: The merchants of the Mediterranean / Kathryn L. Reyerson; title: Voluntary strangers, European merchants and missionaries in Asia during the later Middle Ages / William D. Phillips; title: Home again, the Jews in the kingdom of France, 1315-1322 / William Chester Jordan; title: Strangers in the late fourteenth century London / Derek Pearsall; title: Knights in disguise, identity and incognito in fourteenth-century chivalry / Susan Crane; title: The sexual stranger, the sexual quest in Wolfram's Parzival / Edward R. Haymes; title: Creating credibility and truth through performance, Kelin's Encomium / Maria Dobozy; title: The stranger and the problematics of the epic of revolt, Renaut de Montauban / William Calin; title: Who was that masked man? / Janet L. Solberg.