Meeting the foreign in the Middle Ages
By: edited by Albrecht Classen.
Contributors: Classen, Albrecht.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Aliens -- Europe -- Public opinion -- History -- To 1500.; Aliens in literature.; Civilization, Medieval.; Minorities -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.; Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.; Marvelous, The, in literature.; Europe -- Civilization -- Foreign influences.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: The Self, the Other, and Everything in Between:Xenological Phenomenology of the Middle Ages; title: ALBRECHT CLASSEN xi; title: CHAPTER 1; title: THE SARACEN AND THE MARTYR: EMBRACING THE FOREIGN IN HROTSVIT'S PELAGIUS; title: LISA WESTON 1; title: CHAPTER 2; title: FOREIGNER, FOE, AND NEIGHBOR: THE RELIGIOUS CULT AS A FORUM FOR POLITICAL RECONCILIATION; title: MICHAEL GOODICH 11; title: CHAPTER 3; title: HUNGARIANS AS VREMDE IN MEDIEVAL GERMANY; title: ALEXANDER SAGER 27; title: CHAPTER 4; title: THE FACE OF THE FOREIGNER IN MEDIEVAL GERMAN COURTLY LITERATURE; title: DAVID F. TINSLEY 45; title: CHAPTER 5; title: VISITORS FROM ANOTHER SPACE: THE MEDIEVAL REVENANT AS FOREIGNER; title: ALINE G. HORNADAY 71; title: CHAPTER 6; title: THE FOREIGNER WITHIN: THE SUBJECT OF ABJECTION IN SIR GOWTHER; title: MICHAEL UEBEL 96; title: CHAPTER 7; title: SIR GOWTHER: IMAGINING RACE IN LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND; title: JESUS MONTANO 118; title: CHAPTER 8; title: MARGINS IN MIDDLE ENGLISH ROMANCE: CULTURE AND CHARACTERIZATION IN THE AWNTYRS OFFARTHUREAT THE; title: TERNE WATHELYNE AND THE WEDDING OF SIR GAWAIN AND DAME RAGNELL; title: JEAN E. JOST 133; title: CHAPTER 9; title: CANNIBAL DIPLOMACY: OTHERNESS IN THE MIDDLE ENGLISH TEXT RICHARD COER DE LION; title: LEONA F. CORDERY 153; title: CHAPTER 10; title: ANSELM TURMEDA: THE VISIONARY HUMANISM OF A MUSLIM CONVERT AND CATALAN PROPHET; title: LOURDES MARFA ALVAREZ 172; title: CHAPTER 11; title: SOCIAL BODIES AND THE NON-CHRISTIAN 'OTHER' IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY: JOHN OF SALISBURY AND PETER OF CELLE; title: CARY J. NEDERMAN 192; title: CHAPTER 12; title: RELIGIOUS GEOGRAPHY: DESIGNATING JEWS AND MUSLIMS AS FOREIGNERS IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND; title: DAVID B. LESHOCK 202; title: CHAPTER 13; title: FOREIGNERS IN KONRAD VON WURZBURG'S PARTONOPIER UND MELIUR; title: ALBRECHT CLASSEN 226; title: CHAPTER 14; title: THE INTIMATE OTHER: HANS FOLZ'S DIALOGUE BETWEEN "CHRISTIAN AND JEW".