Saracens And The Making Of English Identity
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Saracens And The Making Of English Identity
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Author : Siobhain Bly Calkin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-11-05
Saracens And The Making Of English Identity written by Siobhain Bly Calkin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book explores the ways in which discourses of religious, racial, and national identity blur and engage each other in the medieval West. Specifically, the book studies depictions of Muslims in England during the 1330s and argues that these depictions, although historically inaccurate, served to enhance and advance assertions of English national identity at this time. The book examines Saracen characters in a manuscript renowned for the variety of its texts, and discusses hagiographic legends, elaborations of chronicle entries, and popular romances about Charlemagne, Arthur, and various English knights. In these texts, Saracens engage issues such as the demarcation of communal borders, the place of gender norms and religion in communities' self-definitions, and the roles of violence and history in assertions of group identity. Texts involving Saracens thus serve both to assert an English identity, and to explore the challenges involved in making such an assertion in the early fourteenth century when the English language was regaining its cultural prestige, when the English people were increasingly at odds with their French cousins, and when English, Welsh, and Scottish sovereignty were pressing matters.
The Roland And Otuel Romances And The Anglo Norman Otinel
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Author : Susanna Fein
language : en
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Release Date : 2020-09-30
The Roland And Otuel Romances And The Anglo Norman Otinel written by Susanna Fein and has been published by Medieval Institute Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-30 with Literary Collections categories.
This edition contains four Middle English Charlemagne romances from the Otuel cycle: Roland and Vernagu, Otuel a Knight, Otuel and Roland, and Duke Roland and Sir Otuel of Spain. A translation of the romances' source, the Anglo-French Otinel, is also included. The romances center on conflicts between Frankish Christians and various Saracen groups, and deal with issues of racial and religious difference, conversion, and faith-based violence.
Guy Of Warwick
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Author : Alison Wiggins
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2007
Guy Of Warwick written by Alison Wiggins and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Literary Criticism categories.
The first interdisciplinary enquiry into a key figure in medieval and early modern culture. Guy of Warwick is England's other Arthur. Elevated to the status of national hero, his legend occupied a central place in the nation's cultural heritage from the Middle Ages to the modern period. Guy of Warwick: Icon and Ancestor spans the Guy tradition from its beginnings in Anglo-Norman and Middle English romance right through to the plays and prints of the early modern period and Spenser's Faerie Queene, including the visual tradition in manuscript illustration and material culture as well as the intersection of the legend with local and national history. This volume addresses important questions regarding the continuities and remaking of romance material, and therelation between life and literature. Topics discussed are sensitive to current critical concerns and include translation, reception, magnate ambition, East-West relations, the construction of "Englishness" and national identity, and the literary value of "popular" romance. ALISON WIGGINS is Lecturer in English Language at the University of Glasgow; ROSALIND FIELD is Reader in Medieval Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. Note on ebook images: Due to limited rights we are unable to make all images in this book available in the ebook version. If you'd like to purchase the ebook regardless, please email us on [email protected] to obtain a PDF of the images. We apologise for the inconvenience caused. CONTRIBUTORS: JUDITH WEISS, MARIANNE AILES, IVANA DJORDJEVIC, ROSALIND FIELD, ALISON WIGGINS, A.S.G. EDWARDS, ROBERT ALLEN ROUSE, DAVID GRIFFITH, MARTHA W. DRIVER, SIAN ECHARD, ANDREW KING, HELEN COOPER
Sir Bevis Of Hampton In Literary Tradition
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Author : Jennifer Fellows
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Release Date : 2008
Sir Bevis Of Hampton In Literary Tradition written by Jennifer Fellows and has been published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Literary Criticism categories.
First comprehensive collection to be devoted to Sir Bevis, the most popular Middle English romance.
The Facts On File Companion To British Poetry Before 1600
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Author : Michelle M. Sauer
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2008
The Facts On File Companion To British Poetry Before 1600 written by Michelle M. Sauer and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Electronic books categories.
Some of the most important authors in British poetry left their mark onliterature before 1600, including Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, and, of course, William Shakespeare. "The Facts On File Companion to British Poetry before 1600"is an encyclopedic guide to British poetry from the beginnings to theyear 1600, featuring approximately 600 entries ranging in length from300 to 2,500 words.
Saracens And Franks In 12th 15th Century European And Near Eastern Literature
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Author : Aman Y. Nadhiri
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-06-10
Saracens And Franks In 12th 15th Century European And Near Eastern Literature written by Aman Y. Nadhiri and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
Saracens and Franks in 12th - 15th Century European and Near Eastern Literature examines the tension between two competing discourses in the medieval Muslim Mediterranean and medieval Christian Europe: one rooted in the desire to understand the world and one's place in it, and another promoting an ethnocentric narrative. To this end, it examines the construction of an image of the Other for Muslims in the Eastern Mediterranean and for Christians in Western Europe in works of literature, particularly in the works produced in the centuries preceding the Crusades; and it explores the ways in which both Muslim and Christian writers depicted the Enemy in historical accounts of the Crusades. The author focuses on medieval works of ethnography and geography, travel literature, Muslim and Christian accounts of the Crusades, and the romances of Western Europe to trace the evolution of the image of the Eastern Mediterranean Muslim in medieval Western Europe and the Western European Christian in the medieval Muslim world, first to understand the construct in the respective scholarly communities, and then to analyze the ways in which this conception informs subsequent works of non-fiction and fiction (in the Western European context) in which this Muslim or Christian Other plays a prominent role. In its analysis of the medieval Mediterranean Muslim and European Christian approaches to difference, this book interrogates the premises underlying the concept of the Other, challenging formulations of binary opposition such as the West versus Islam/Muslims.
Writing Regional Identities In Medieval England
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Author : Emily Dolmans
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2020
Writing Regional Identities In Medieval England written by Emily Dolmans and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with English literature categories.
An examination of how regional identities are reflected in texts from medieval England.
Hybridity In The Literature Of Medieval England
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Author : Rosanne P. Gasse
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-07-04
Hybridity In The Literature Of Medieval England written by Rosanne P. Gasse and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
Hybridity in the Literature of Medieval England offers a wide-ranging exploration of hybridity in medieval English literature. Anxiety about hybridity surfaces in characters of mixed ethnic identity in the romances. But anxiety is found also in the intersection of the natural and the supernatural and its site can be located inside the human body’s unstable physical frame, living and dead, as much as in the cultural and social forces at work upon the human body politic at large. Hybridity is unlike other constructs of difference in that, while it is grounded in difference, hybridity points toward sameness. The four types of hybridity studied in medieval English literature show that hybridity can resolve the problems caused by difference. Understanding medieval hybridity can help us to deal with our own contemporary struggles with the mixtures of our own lives and societies.
Villains And Heroes Or Villains As Heroes Essays On The Relationship Between Villainy And Evil
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Author : Luke Seaber
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-10-12
Villains And Heroes Or Villains As Heroes Essays On The Relationship Between Villainy And Evil written by Luke Seaber and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-12 with Social Science categories.
What constitutes a villain? How does villainy differ from evil? Do villains created for children's fiction differ from those created for adults? The villains considered in this volume come from an eclectic range of sources - from comic books to film and from novels to television serials - and a broad selection of times and places. Villains continue to raise troubling questions about the role of narrative in both fiction and real life.
Heroes And Anti Heroes In Medieval Romance
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Author : Neil Cartlidge
language : en
Publisher: DS Brewer
Release Date : 2012
Heroes And Anti Heroes In Medieval Romance written by Neil Cartlidge and has been published by DS Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Literary Collections categories.
Investigations into the heroic - or not - behaviour of the protagonists of medieval romance. Medieval romances so insistently celebrate the triumphs of heroes and the discomfiture of villains that they discourage recognition of just how morally ambiguous, antisocial or even downright sinister their protagonists can be, and, correspondingly, of just how admirable or impressive their defeated opponents often are. This tension between the heroic and the antiheroic makes a major contribution to the dramatic complexity of medieval romance, but it is not an aspect of the genre that has been frequently discussed up until now. Focusing on fourteen distinct characters and character-types in medieval narrative, this book illustrates the range of different ways in which the imaginative power and appeal of romance-texts often depend on contradictions implicit in the very ideal of heroism. Dr Neil Cartlidge is Lecturer in English at the University of Durham. Contributors: Neil Cartlidge, Penny Eley, David Ashurst, Meg Lamont, Laura Ashe, Judith Weiss, Gareth Griffith, Kate McClune, Nancy Mason Bradbury, Ad Putter, Robert Rouse, Siobhain Bly Calkin, James Wade, Stephanie Vierick Gibbs Kamath