Research Catalog

Title

Languages of love and hate : conflict, communication, and identity in the medieval Mediterranean / edited by Sarah Lambert and Helen Nicholson.

Publication

• Turnhout : Brepols, [2012]
• ©2012

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Additional Authors

• Lambert, Sarah
• Nicholson, Helen J., 1960-

Description

xxix, 284 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

This book probes the nature of the clash of cultures as a process of identification and classification of the unknown. 'There is no world of thought that is not a world of language and one sees of the world only what is provided for by language' (Walter Benjamin, 1936). In the medieval Mediterranean, cultural groups were frequently labelled, fixed, and identified by language, and these linguistic groupings were consistently in states of conflict and/or exchange. This collection explores various expressions of cultural clash and exchange, and examines some of the ways in which language was used to express difference, to mark out cultural difference, and to further label those cultures--often as alien and inferior, but sometimes as different and worthy of respect. This theme unites scholars coming from a range of perspectives and engaging with a whole series of cultural interchanges and conflicts. It brings together work on a wide range of peoples--Latins, Byzantines, Muslims, and Jews--commenting on and writing about each other, as well as a wide variety of different genres, from theology to farce. This volume seeks to offer a broad and wide-ranging approach to understanding the world at the time of the crusades through the words of participants and observers.

Series Statement

International medieval research ; v. 15

Uniform Title

International medieval research (Series) ; 15.

Subjects

• Language and culture > Mediterranean Region > History > To 1500
• Islam > Relations > Christianity
• Crusades in literature
• Culture conflict in literature
• Judaism > Relations > Christianity
• Culture conflict > Mediterranean Region > History > To 1500
• Byzantine Empire > Foreign relations > 1081-1453
• Christianity and other religions > Mediterranean Region > To 1500
• Intercultural communication > Mediterranean Region > History > To 1500
• Literature, Medieval > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• In English; occasional phrases in Ancient Greek and Latin with English translations.

Contents

Tolerated otherness : the 'unconverted' Saracen in the Chansons de geste / Marianne Ailes -- Love in a hot climate : gender relations in Florent et Octavien / Helen J. Nicholson -- 'Pagans' and 'others' in the Chanson de Jérusalem / Susan B. Edgington -- Crusaders in a hall of mirrors : the portrayal of Saracens in Robert the Monk's Historia Iherosolimitana / Carol Sweetenham -- Translation, citation, and ridicule : Renart the fox and crusading in the vernacular / Sarah Lambert -- Eyeing up eunuchs : western perceptions of Byzantine cultural dierence / Shaun Tougher -- Collusion with the infidel as a pretext for western military action against Byzantium (1180-1204) / Jonathan Harris -- Greeks and Latins at the time of the fourth crusade : patriarch John X Kamateros and a troubadour Tenso / Linda Paterson -- Greeks and Franks after the fourth crusade : identity in the Chronicle of Morea / Teresa Shawcross -- 'Catholics' in the Byzantine political elite : the case of Demetrius Kydones / Judith R. Ryder -- Mamluks and crusaders : architectural appropriation and cultural encounter in Mamluk monuments / Karen Rose Mathews -- Modes of literary behaviour in Christian-Islamic encounters in the Iberian peninsula : pseudo-Turpin versus Peter the Venerable / Matthias M. Tischler -- Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada and his Historia Arabum : an extraordinary example of inter-cultural tolerance? / Matthias Maser -- Integration or exclusion of Judaism in the later Middle Ages? The apologetic strategies of Ramón Llull / Wolfram Drews.

Call Number

JFE 12-6376

ISBN

• 9782503520643
• 2503520642
• 9782503540139 (e-ISBN) (canceled/invalid)
• 2503540139 (e-ISBN) (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

797981388

Title

Languages of love and hate : conflict, communication, and identity in the medieval Mediterranean / edited by Sarah Lambert and Helen Nicholson.

Publisher

Turnhout : Brepols, [2012]

Copyright Date

©2012

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

International medieval research ; v. 15

International medieval research (Series) ; 15.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language

In English; occasional phrases in Ancient Greek and Latin with English translations.

Added Author

Lambert, Sarah, editor.

Nicholson, Helen J., 1960- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 12-6376