The Stranger in Medieval Society

by Prisma; D' Elden, Stephaine Cain Van; Akehurst, F. R. P.; Van D'Elden, Stephanie Cain

• ISBN13: 9780816630325
• ISBN10: 0816630321
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-02-01
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

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Author Biography

Stephanie Van d’Elden is a former director of graduate studies for the program in Germanic philology at the University of Minnesota.

Table of Contents

Preface
The Merchants of the Mediterranean: Merchants as Strangers	p. 1
Voluntary Strangers: European Merchants and Missionaries in Asia during the Late Middle Ages	p. 14
Home Again: The Jews in the Kingdom of France, 1315-1322	p. 27
Strangers in Late-Fourteenth-Century London	p. 46
Knights in Disguise: Identity and Incognito in Fourteenth-Century Chivalry	p. 63
The Sexual Stranger: The Sexual Quest in Wolfram's Parzival	p. 80
Creating Credibility and Truth through Performance: Kelin's Encomium	p. 92
The Stranger and the Problematics of the Epic of Revolt: Renaut de Montauban	p. 104
"Who Was That Masked Man?": Disguise and Deception in Medieval and Renaissance Comic Literature	p. 117
Contributors	p. 139
Index	p. 141
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