Monstrous Fantasies : England's Crusading Imaginary and the Romance of Recovery, 1300-1500 / Leila K. Norako.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Norako, Leila K., 1982- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romances, English--History and criticism.

Romances, English.

Crusades in literature.

Islamophobia in literature.

Violence in literature.

Xenophobia in literature.

Literature and society--England--History--To 1500.

Literature and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"In the wake of the Muslim capture of Acre in 1291, literary works began to circulate around Europe that fantasized not only about the Christian European reconquest of the Holy Land but the wholesale conversion or slaughter of the 'infidels' who lived there. In medieval England-the focus of this book-these texts repurposed Arthurian and Charlemagne legends and historical romances to give voice to this trauma, cultural anxiety, and murderous xenophobia, even influencing Chaucer's Canterbury Tales."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Becoming crusaders: vernacular romance and fantasies of recovery

Of licit monsters and men: Richard Coer de Lyon and the politics of recovered history

Precarious desires: Charlemagne and the bodies of recovery

King of the future-past: Arthur and the temporalities of English conquest

The romance of recovery in The Canterbury tales.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Norako, Leila K., 1982- Monstrous fantasies

ISBN:

9781501776335

1501776339

9781501776328

1501776320

OCLC:

1446133898