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Darrera modificació: 2017-11-23
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Classen, Albrecht (eds.), East Meets West in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: Transcultural Experiences in the Premodern World, Berlín, Walter de Gruyter (Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 14), 2013, ix + 818 pp.
- Resum
- This new volume explores the surprisingly intense and complex relationships between East and West during the Middle Ages and the early modern world, combining a large number of critical studies representing such diverse fields as literary (German, French, Italian, English, Spanish, and Arabic) and other subdisciplines of history, religion, anthropology, and linguistics. The differences between Islam and Christianity erected strong barriers separating two global cultures, but, as this volume indicates, despite many attempts to 'Other' the opposing side, the premodern world experienced an astonishing degree of contacts, meetings, exchanges, and influences. Scientists, travelers, authors, medical researchers, chroniclers, diplomats, and merchants criss-crossed the East and the West, or studied the sources produced by the other culture for many different reasons. As much as the theoretical concept of 'Orientalism' has been useful in sensitizing us to the fundamental tensions and conflicts separating both worlds at least since the eighteenth century, the premodern world did not quite yet operate in such an ideological framework. Even though the Crusades had violently pitted Christians against Muslims, there were countless contacts and a palpitable curiosity on both sides both before, during, and after those religious warfares.
Contents:
* Encounters Between East and West in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: Many Untold Stories About Connections and Contacts, Understanding and Misunderstandin. Also an Introduction / Classen, Albrecht · 1-222
* Mirrors for Princes in Europe and the Middle East: A Case of Historiographical Incommensurability / Darling, Linda T. · 223-242
* Refraining the Monstrous: Visions of Desire and a Unified Christendom in the Anglo-Saxon Wonders of the East / Barajas, Courtney Catherine · 243-262
* Byzantium between East and West: Competing Hellenisms in the Alexiad of Anna Komnene and her Contemporaries / Cooper, Glen M. · 263-290
* Franks and Indigenous Communities in Palestine and Syria (1099-1187): A Hierarchical Model of Social Interaction in the Principalities of Outremer / Murray, Alan V. · 291-310
* A Century of Communication and Acclimatization: Interpreters and Intermediaries in the Kingdom of Jerusalem / Tuley, K. A. · 311-340
* East Meets West and the Problem with Those Pictures / Wollesen, Jens T. · 341-388
* Walther von der Vogelweide and the Middle East: "Holy Land" and the Heathen / Clason, Christopher R. · 389-426
* Wolfram's Islam: The Beliefs of the Muslim Pagans in Parzival and Willehalm / Hartmann, Heiko · 427-442
* Crusading against Barbarians: Muslims as Barbarians in Crusades Era Sources / Holt, Andrew P. · 443-456
* The Encounter with the Foreign in Medieval and Early Modern German Literature: Ficrionality as a Springboard for Non-Xenophobic Approaches in the Middle Ages. Herzog Ernst, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Konrad von Würzburg, Die Heidin, and Fortunatus / Classen, Albrecht · 457-488
* Rumi's Mathnawi and the Roman de la Rose: The Space of Narrative / Black, Patricia E. · 489-504
* The Moors in Thirteenth-Century Spain: "They are Us!" / Scarborough, Connie Larue · 505-522
* The Reorientation of Roger Bacon: Muslims, Mongols, and the Man Who Knew Everything / Abate, Mark T. · 523-574
* Jost (2013), "The exotic and fabulous East in ..." · 575-594
* Taylor (2013), "Merveilles du monde: Marco ..." · 595-610
* Schmitz-Esser (2013), "Embalming and dissecting the ..." · 611-624
* West-östliche Dialoge in der Mörin Hermanns von Sachsenheim (1453) / Helmschrott, Stefanie · 625-648
* La représentation de l'Orient dans les Essais de Montaigne / Bjaï, Denis · 649-666
* The Strange Journey of Christian Rosencreutz / Willard, Thomas · 667-698
* Producing Yeni Dünya for an Ottoman Readership: The Travels of Ilyas bin Hanna al-Mawsuli in Colonial Latin America, 1675-1683 / Duarte, Ramon E. · 699-714
* Orientalism in Early Modern Europe? / Coudert, Allison P. · 715-756
* A Seventeenth-Century French Merchant in the Orient: The Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Tavernier in Les six voyages / Barthe, Pascale · 757-780
- Matèries
- Geografia i viatges
Història natural - Humans
Història de la literatura
Religió - Espiritualitat
- Notes
- Informació de l'editor
- URL
- https://books.google.es/books?id=snPnBQAAQBAJ&lpg=P ...
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