Research Catalog

Title

East meets West in the Middle Ages and early modern times : transcultural experiences in the premodern world / edited by Albrecht Classen.

Publication

• Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2013]
• ©2013

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Details

Additional Authors

Classen, Albrecht

Description

ix, 818 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture ; 14

Uniform Title

Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ; 14.

Subjects

• Asia
• East and West
• Europe
• Literature, Medieval
• Relations
• Asia > Relations > Europe
• East and West > History > To 1500
• Middle Ages > Historiography
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Europe > Relations > Asia
• Literature, Medieval > History and criticism
• To 1500
• History

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction / Albrecht Classen -- Encounters between east and west in the middle ages and early modern age : many untold stories about connections and contacts, understanding and misunderstanding -- Also an introduction -- New voices reflecting contacts between latin-europa and the muslim world -- Xenology and intercultural research -- Orientalism, postcolonial studies, and the premodern world -- Economic, political, and cultural connections : ignored but significant features under the radar screen -- Literary reflections on the foreign in medieval literature -- Arab writers, geographers, and travelers -- St. Francis of Assisi's attempt to reach out to The saracens : the first peaceful missionizing in the thirteenth century -- The christian perspective : pilgrimage to the holy land : a first step into a vast field -- The diplomat pilgrim bertrandon de la broquière -- The helpful saracen in margery kempe's book : a mystical woman's perception of the foreign world -- Locations of contacts between east and west -- Travel as a medium of cultural contacts -- Curiosity among muslim travelers? -- Jewish travelers in the middle ages -- A parallel christian travel account and literary narrative : fortunatus -- Jewish communities in the diaspora -- Historical contacts between east and west -- Rabbi petachia of ratisbona -- Additional jewish perspectives -- Christian pilgrim narratives in the late middle ages -- The most astute observer and reporter : felix fabri -- A brief comparison with giovanni boccaccio : decameron -- Trouble and conflicts : Christian pilgrims and Muslim population -- Bernhard von breydenbach's peregrinatio -- Other contacts and contact zones -- Europeans and the ottoman world -- Anton von pforr's german adaptation of indian literature : cross-cultural experiences in the late middle ages -- Origin and framework of this volume -- Summaries of the contributions and critical reflections -- Conclusion and outlook -- Acknowledgments -- Mirrors for princes in europe and the middle east : a case of historiographical incommensurability / Linda T. Darling -- Reframing the monstrous : visions of desire and a unified christendom in the anglo-saxon wonders of the east / Courtney Catherine Barajas --
• Byzantium between east and west : competing hellenisms in the alexiad of anna komnene and her contemporaries / Glen M. Cooper -- Franks and indigenous communities in palestine and syria (1099-1187) : a hierarchical model of social interaction in the principalities of outremer / Alan V. Murray -- A century of communication and acclimatization : interpreters and intermediaries in the kingdom of Jerusalem / K. A. Tuley -- East meets west and the problem with those pictures / Jens T. Wollesen -- Walther von der vogelweide and the middle east : "Holy Land" and the heathen / Christopher R. Clason -- Wolfram's islam : the beliefs of the muslim pagans in parzival and willehalm / Heiko Hartmann -- Crusading against barbarians : Muslims as Barbarians in crusades era sources / Andrew Holt -- The encounter with the foreign in medieval and early modern german literature : fictionality as a Springboard for non-xenophobic approaches in the middle ages : Herzog Ernst, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Konrad von Würzburg, die Heidin, and Fortunatus / Albrecht classen -- Rumi's Mathnawi and the Roman de la Rose : the space of narrative / Patricia E. Black -- The Moors in thirteenth-century spain : "they are us!" / Connie L. Scarborough -- The reorientation of Roger Bacon : Muslims, Mongols, and the man who knew everything / Mark T. Abate -- The exotic and fabulous east in the travels Of Sir John Mandeville : understated authenticity / Jean E. Jost -- Merveilles du Monde : Marco Millioni, Mirabilia, and the Medieval imagination, or the impact of genre on European Curiositas / Scott L. Taylor -- Embalming and dissecting the corpse between east and west : from Ar-Razi to Henry de Mondeville / Romedio Schmitz-Esser -- West-östliche dialoge in der Mörin Hermanns von Sachsenheim (1453) / Stefanie Helmschrott -- La représentation de l'Orient dans les Essais de Montaigne / Denis Bjaï -- The strange journey of Christian Rosencreutz / Thomas Willard -- Producing Yeni Dünya for an Ottoman readership : the travels of ilyas bin hanna al-mawsuli in Colonial Latin America, 1675-1683 / Ramön E. Duarte -- Orientalism in early modern Europe? / Allison P. Coudert -- A seventeenth-century french merchant in the orient : the portrait of Jean-Baptiste Tavernier in les six voyages / Pascale Barthe -- List of illustrations -- Contributors -- Index.

Call Number

JFE 14-2592

ISBN

• 9783110328783
• 311032878X
• 3110321513
• 9783110321517
• 9783110321517 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2013023803

OCLC

849822608

Title

East meets West in the Middle Ages and early modern times : transcultural experiences in the premodern world / edited by Albrecht Classen.

Publisher

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2013]

Copyright Date

©2013

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture ; 14

Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ; 14.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

To 1500

Added Author

Classen, Albrecht, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 14-2592