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Saracens and the making of English identity : the Auchinleck manuscript / Siobhain Bly Calkin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Calkin, Siobhain Bly, 1973- author.
- Series:
- Studies in Medieval History and Culture
- Studies in medieval history and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Auchinleck manuscript.
- English literature--Islamic influences.
- English literature.
- Islam and literature--England--History--To 1500.
- Islam and literature.
- National characteristics, English, in literature.
- Romances, English--History and criticism.
- Romances, English.
- Romances, English--Manuscripts.
- Manuscripts, Medieval--England.
- Manuscripts, Medieval.
- Manuscripts, English (Middle).
- Saracens in literature.
- Crusades in literature.
- Islamic Empire--Foreign public opinion, English.
- Islamic Empire.
- Islamic Empire--In literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 Eng
- Contents:
- The perils of proximity: Saracen knights, sameness, and differentiation
- Saracens and she-wolves: foreign consorts and group identity
- Monstrous intermingling and miraculous conversion: negotiating cultural borders in the King of Tars
- Saracens and English Christian identity in Seynt Katerine and Seynt Mergrete
- Saracens, Englishness, and productive violence in Of Arthour and Of Merlin.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-292) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-47171-1
- 0-415-80309-8
- 0-203-95852-7
- 1-135-47164-9
- 9780203958520
- OCLC:
- 862613648
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