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Meeting the foreign in the Middle Ages / edited by Albrecht Classen.

Contributor(s): Classen, Albrecht
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 2002Description: lxxiii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415930022 (acidfree paper); 9780415930024 (acid-free paper)Subject(s): 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 influencesLOC classification: CB353 | .M426 2002Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: the self, the other, and everything in between: xenological phenomenology of the Middle Ages / Albrecht Classen -- The Saracen and the martyr: embracing the foreign in Hrotsvit's Pelagius / Lisa Weston -- Foreigner, foe, and neighbor: the religious cult as a forum for political reconciliation / Michael Goodrich -- Hungarians as vremde in medieval Germany / Alexander Sager -- The face of the foreigner in medieval German courtly literature / David F. Tinsley -- Visitors from another space: the medieval revenant as foreigner / Aline G. Hornaday -- The foreigner within: the subject of abjection in Sir Gowther / Michael Uebel -- Sir Gowther: imagining race in late medieval England / Jesus Montaño -- Margins in Middle English romance: culture and characterization in The Awntyrs off Arthure at the terne wathelyne and The wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell / Jean E. Jost -- Cannibal diplomacy: otherness in the Middle English text Richard Coer de Lion / Leona F. Cordery -- Anselm Turmeda: the visionary humanism of a Muslim convert and Catalan prophet / Lourdes María Alvarez -- Social bodies and the non-Christian 'other' in the twelfth century: John of Salisbury and Peter of Celle / Cary J. Nederman -- religious geography: designating Jews and Muslims as foreigners in medieval England / David B. Leshock -- Foreigners in Konrad von Würzburg's Partonopier und Meliur / Albrecht Classen -- The intimate other: Hans Folz's dialogue between "Christian and Jew" / Winfried Frey.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the self, the other, and everything in between: xenological phenomenology of the Middle Ages / Albrecht Classen -- The Saracen and the martyr: embracing the foreign in Hrotsvit's Pelagius / Lisa Weston -- Foreigner, foe, and neighbor: the religious cult as a forum for political reconciliation / Michael Goodrich -- Hungarians as vremde in medieval Germany / Alexander Sager -- The face of the foreigner in medieval German courtly literature / David F. Tinsley -- Visitors from another space: the medieval revenant as foreigner / Aline G. Hornaday -- The foreigner within: the subject of abjection in Sir Gowther / Michael Uebel -- Sir Gowther: imagining race in late medieval England / Jesus Montaño -- Margins in Middle English romance: culture and characterization in The Awntyrs off Arthure at the terne wathelyne and The wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell / Jean E. Jost -- Cannibal diplomacy: otherness in the Middle English text Richard Coer de Lion / Leona F. Cordery -- Anselm Turmeda: the visionary humanism of a Muslim convert and Catalan prophet / Lourdes María Alvarez -- Social bodies and the non-Christian 'other' in the twelfth century: John of Salisbury and Peter of Celle / Cary J. Nederman -- religious geography: designating Jews and Muslims as foreigners in medieval England / David B. Leshock -- Foreigners in Konrad von Würzburg's Partonopier und Meliur / Albrecht Classen -- The intimate other: Hans Folz's dialogue between "Christian and Jew" / Winfried Frey.

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