In today's discussions of religious difference and intolerance, the Middle Ages are often presented as a time of fixed racial, religious, and cultural identities, especially as regards the East and Islam. Representations of Saracens, however, show how literary traditions invite a more nuanced c...

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1. Verfasser:	Turner, Victoria (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Abschlussarbeit Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge Legenda 2019
Schriftenreihe:	Research monographs in French studies 55
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1150-1350 Identität > Motiv Literatur Sarazenen Französisch Hochschulschrift
Zusammenfassung:	In today's discussions of religious difference and intolerance, the Middle Ages are often presented as a time of fixed racial, religious, and cultural identities, especially as regards the East and Islam. Representations of Saracens, however, show how literary traditions invite a more nuanced consideration of the complex and often surprising ways in which such non-Christian figures might be depicted. In a wide-ranging study of Old French texts from c.1150-1350, Victoria Turner explores how racial identity is not only paradoxical but even fluid in the medieval Christian literary imagination, where Arthurian heroes may have Saracen ancestors and where a Saracen may set an example of good Christian behaviour. Drawing on modern critical theory, Turner adopts a series of approaches to the term ‘race’ to counter suggestions that these medieval identities were necessarily adversarial, consistent or absolute.
Beschreibung:	Erscheint Juli 2019
Beschreibung:	213 Seiten 17 Faksimiles
ISBN:	9781781886670 9781781886687