Meeting the Foreign in the Middle Ages

Meeting the Foreign in the Middle Ages

by Albrecht Classen (Editor), Albrecht Classen (Editor)

Synopsis

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 Exploring the diverse manifestations of the foreign in medieval literature, historical documents, religous treatises, and art, these essays mine the traces of unprecedented encounters in which fascination and fear meet.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 23 Dec 2014

ISBN 10: 113801155X
ISBN 13: 9781138011557

Author Bio
Albert Classen, PhD., is Professor of German at the University of Arizona.