Contextualizing the Muslim Other in Medieval Christian Discourse [Hardcover]

Broadens the perspective of recent work on the discourse of the Muslim Other in medieval Christendom by investigating pertinent texts, art, and artefacts, situating these local discourses of the Muslim Other in the larger cultural context of proto-Eurocentric discourse.Foreword; J.C.Frakes Medieval Miscegenation: Hybridity and the Anxiety of Inheritance; L.Ramey ? Celts Seen as Muslims and Muslims Seen by Celts in Medieval Literature; M.Boyd Prester John, Christian Enclosure and the Spatial Transmission of Islamic Alterity in the Twelfth Century West; C.Taylor Mapping the Muslims: Images of Islam in Middle High German Literature of the Thirteenth Century; D.F.Tinsley? Conflicted Coexistence: Christian-Muslim Interaction and its Representation in Medieval Armenia; S.La Porta ? Don Quijote attacks his Muslim Other: The Maese Pedro Episode of Don Quijote; B.Fra-Molinero From Medieval to Modern: the Myth of Kosovo, 'The Turks,' and Montenegro (a Lacanian Interpretation); Z.Zlatar? Afterword; J.Tolan

Any medievalist, reading one or more of these essays, will find the information enlightening. - Journal of English and Germanic Philology

Contextualizing the Muslim Other in Medieval Christian Discourse moves beyond the usual language groups of Latin, English, and French to explore local accounts of religious encounter in the borderlands, including Ireland, Spain, Armenia, and the Slavic-speaking regions of eastern Europe, with special attention to the richness of medieval German visions of Islam. Its essays, written by senior scholars in the field as well as newer voices, engage deeply with the dynamics of space and enclosure to give new insights into pre-modern practices of community formation through ideologies of exclusion. - Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Professor of English and Medieval Studies, University of Toronto

[This book]focuses closely on a single important subject - the Muslim other in the European Middle Ages - acrosls3