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Medieval Boundaries
Author | : Sharon Kinoshita |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2013-03-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780812202489 |
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In Medieval Boundaries, Sharon Kinoshita examines the role of cross-cultural contact in twelfth- and early thirteenth-century French literature. Starting from the observation that many of the earliest and best-known works of the French literary tradition are set on or beyond the borders of the French-speaking world, she reads the Chanson de Roland, the lais of Marie de France, and a variety of other texts in an expanded geographical frame that includes the Iberian peninsula, the Welsh marches, and the eastern Mediterranean. In Kinoshita's reconceptualization of the geographical and cultural boundaries of the medieval West, such places become significant not only as sites of conflict but also as spaces of intense political, economic, and cultural negotiation. An important contribution to the emerging field of medieval postcolonialism, Kinoshita's work explores the limitations of reading the literature of the French Middle Ages as an inevitable link in the historical construction of modern discourses of Orientalism, colonialism, race, and Christian-Muslim conflict. Rather, drawing on recent historical and art historical scholarship, Kinoshita uncovers a vernacular culture at odds with official discourses of crusade and conquest. Situating each work in its specific context, she brings to light the lived experiences of the knights and nobles for whom this literature was first composed and—in a series of close readings informed by postcolonial and feminist theory—demonstrates that literary representations of cultural encounters often provided the pretext for questioning the most basic categories of medieval identity. Awarded honorable mention for the 2007 Modern Language Association Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies
Crossing Boundaries at Medieval Universities
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2010-11-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004192164 |
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This collaborative volume explores how the creation and the crossing of faculty, disciplinary and social boundaries contributed to the development of the medieval European university.
Crossing Borders Boundaries and Margins in Medieval and Early Modern Britain
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2018-04-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004364950 |
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The twelve essays in Crossing Borders: Boundaries and Margins in Medieval and Early Modern Britain examine marches and margins as jurisdictional, legal, and social expressions of power, building upon the scholarship of Professor Cynthia J. Neville.
Boundaries and Frontiers in Medieval Muslim Geography
Author | : Ralph W. Brauer |
Publsiher | : American Philosophical Society |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0871698560 |
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Contents: Section 1: The Geographical Concepts: Boundaries in Arabo-Islamic Cartography; and Boundaries in the Arabo-Islamic Geographic and Historical Texts; Section 2: Travelers' Experiences at Internal Boundaries, the Area Concept in Arabo-Islamic Geography, and the Relation of Zone-Boundaries to Basic Tenets of Arabo-Islamic Culture; Boundaries in the Writings of Travelers in the Islamic Empire; The Concept of Area in Muslim Geographic Thought; and Boundary Characteristics as a Consequence of Embedded Attidues of the Culture: Section 3: Genesis of Boundary Zones Involving non-Arab Muslim States; Section 4: Summary and Conclusions. Illustrations. A reprint of the American Philosophical Society Transactions 85-6 (1985)
The Boundaries of the Human in Medieval English Literature
Author | : Dorothy Yamamoto |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Animals in literature |
ISBN | : 0198186746 |
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This study analyzes the fear of beastly transformation that recurs throughout Medieval literature. Yamamoto explores how humans envisioned animals with human characteristics in bestiaries and literatures that involve aspects of the hunt and heraldry. Minor texts, as well as major works likeChaucer's "Knight's Tale," are investigated. Additionally, she explores both examples of humans changing into animal form and those that hover enigmatically between species as wild men and women. Investigating this topic, she looks to Alexander romances, the poetry of Gower, and othersources.
Negotiating Boundaries in Medieval Literature and Culture
Author | : Valerie B. Johnson,Kara L. McShane |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2022-03-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781501514234 |
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Thomas Hahn’s work laid the foundations for medieval romance studies to embrace the study of alterity and hybridity within Middle English literature. His contributions to scholarship brought Robin Hood studies into the critical mainstream, normalized the study of historically marginalized literature and peoples, and encouraged scholars to view medieval readers as actively encountering others and exploring themselves. This volume employs his methodologies – careful attention to texts and their contexts, cross-cultural readings, and theoretically-informed analysis – to highlight the literary culture of late medieval England afresh. Addressing long-established canonical works such as Chaucer, Christine de Pizan, and Malory alongside understudied traditions and manuscripts, this book will be of interest to literary scholars of the later Middle Ages who, like Hahn, work across boundaries of genre, tradition, and chronology.
Boundaries in Medieval Romance
Author | : Neil Cartlidge |
Publsiher | : DS Brewer |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 184384155X |
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A wide-ranging collection on one of the most interesting features of medieval romance.
Challenging the Boundaries of Medieval History
Author | : Patricia Skinner |
Publsiher | : Brepols Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Aufsatzsammlung |
ISBN | : 2503523595 |
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This study explores how the history of medieval Europe is written, as well as what national discourses shape the editing of medieval texts and their interpretation in historiography. The essays show medieval historians at work, questioning and reflecting on their practice.