Meeting the Foreign in the Middle Ages

by Classen,Albrecht

• ISBN13: 9780415930024
• ISBN10: 0415930022
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-04-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This collectoion brings together an outstanding group of historical, cultural, and literary scholars to investigate the complicated, nuanced, and often surprising union and desire and dread associated with the figure of the foreign Other in the Middle Ages--represented variously by Muslims, Jews, heretics, pagans, homosexuals, lepers, monsters, and witches. Exploring the diverse manifestations of the foreign in medieval literature, historical documents, religous treatises, and art, these essays mine the traces of unprecedented encounters in which fascination and fear meet.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. x
Introduction: The Self, the Other, and Everything in Between: Xenological Phenomenology of the Middle Ages	p. xi
The Saracen and the Martyr: Embracing the Foreign in Hrotsvit's Pelagius	p. 1
Foreigner, Foe, and Neighbor: The Religious Cult as a Forum for Political Reconciliation	p. 11
Hungarians as Vremde in Medieval Germany	p. 27
The Face of the Foreigner in Medieval German Courtly Literature	p. 45
Visitors from Another Space: The Medieval Revenant as Foreigner	p. 71
The Foreigner Within: The Subject of Abjection in Sir Gowther	p. 96
Sir Gowther: Imagining Race in Late Medieval England	p. 118
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	p. 133
Cannibal Diplomacy: Otherness in the Middle Englist Text Richard Coer de Lion	p. 153
Anselm Turmeda: The Visionary Humanism of a Muslim Convert and Catalan Prophet	p. 172
Social Bodies and the Non-Christian 'Other' in the Twelfth Century: John of Salisbury and Peter of Celle	p. 192
Religious Geography: Designating Jews and Muslims as Foreigners in Medieval England	p. 202
Foreigners in Konrad Von Wurzburg's Partonopier Und Meliur	p. 226
The Intimate Other: Hans Folz's Dialogue Between "Christian and Jew"	p. 249
Contributors	p. 268
Index	p. 271
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