Medieval cultures in contact / edited by Richard F. Gyug.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gyug, Richard F., 1954-

Series:

Fordham series in medieval studies 1542-6378 ; no. 1.

Fordham series in medieval studies, 1542-6378 ; no. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Medieval.

Territorial expansion.

Social conditions.

Europe, Western--Civilization.

Europe, Western.

Western Europe.

Civilization.

Europe, Western--Social conditions.

Europe, Eastern--Civilization.

Europe, Eastern.

Eastern Europe.

Middle Ages--Historiography.

Middle Ages.

Christianity and other religions.

Europe, Eastern--Social conditions.

Europe--Territorial expansion.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xxi, 282 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2003.

Contents:

Part 1 Cultures in Contact

1. Bilingual Philology in Bede's Exegesis / Carmela Vircillo Franklin 3

2. Conversion or the Crown of Martyrdom: Conflicting Goals for Fourteenth-Century Missionaries in Central Asia? / James D. Ryan 19

3. Speaking for Others: Imposing Solidarities on the Past. The Case of Venetian Crete / Sally McKee 39

4. The Church of Dubrovnik and the Panniculus of Christ: Relics between East and West (and Men and Women) in Medieval Dalmatia / Richard F. Gyug 59

5. Medieval Europe and its Encounter with the Foreign World: Late-Medieval German Witnesses / Albrecht Classen 85

6. Dreams and Visions: A Comparative Analysis of Spiritual Gifts in Medieval Christian and Muslim Conversion Narratives / Linda G. Jones 105

7. Venetian Commerce in the Later Middle Ages: Feast or Famine? / Alan M. Stahl 139

8. Quidam de Sinagoga: The Jew of the Jeu d'Adam / Jennifer R. Goodman 161

9. Minstrel Meets Clerk in Early French Literature: Medieval Romance as the Meeting-Place Between Two Traditions of Verbal Eloquence and Performance Practice / Evelyn Birge Vitz 189

Part 2 Teaching Cultures in Contact

10. Team Teaching the Literature of the European and Islamic Middle Ages: The European Perspective / Kathryn L. Lynch 213

11. Team Teaching the Literature of the European and Islamic Middle Ages: The Islamic Perspective / Louise Marlow 223

Appendix Sample Syllabus (English 315/Religion 365): Images of the Other in the European and Islamic Middle Ages / Kathryn L. Lynch, Louise Marlow 232

12. Center and Periphery in the Teaching of Medieval History / Teofilo F. Ruiz 247

Appendix Sample Syllabus (UCLA: History 121D): Crisis and Renewal: From Late Medieval to Early Modern, 1300-1525 257.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0823222128

0823222136

OCLC:

51653249