Title: Vernacular and Latin literary discourses of the Muslim other in medieval Germany
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.
Subjects: German literature, History and criticism, Medieval and modern Latin literature, Other (Philosophy) in literature, Muslims in literature, German literature, history and criticism, Latin literature, medieval and modern, history and criticism, Philosophy in literature, Middle High German, Old High German, LITERARY CRITICISM, European, German
Places: Germany
Time periods: Old High German, 750-1050, Middle High German, 1050-1500