Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. PART 1: CULTURES IN CONTACT
5. 1. Bilingual Philology in Bede's Exegesis 1
6. 2. Conversion or the Crown of Martyrdom: Conflicting Goals for Fourteenth-Century Missionaries in Central Asia? 19
7. 3. Speaking for Others: Imposing Solidarities on the Past. The Case of Venetian Crete 39
8. 4. The Church ofDubrovnik and the Panniculus of Christ: Relics between East and West (and Men and Women) in Medieval Dalmatia 59
9. 5. Medieval Europe and its Encounter with the Foreign World: Late-Medieval German Witnesses 85
10. 6. Dreams and Visions: A Comparative Analysis of Spiritual Gifts in Medieval Christian and Muslim Conversion Narratives 105
11. 7. Venetian Commerce in the Later Middle Ages: Feast or Famine? 139
12. 8. Quidam de Sinagoga: The Jew of the Jeu d'Adam 161
13. 9. Minstrel Meets Clerk in Early French Literature: Medieval Romance as the Meeting-Place Between Two Traditions of Verbal Eloquence and Performance Practice 189
14. PART 2: TEACHING CULTURES IN CONTACT
15. 10. Team Teaching the Literature of the European and Islamic Middle Ages: The European Perspective 213
16. 11. Team Teaching the Literature of the European and Islamic Middle Ages: The Islamic Perspective 223
17. Appendix. Sample Syllabus (English 315/Religion 365): Images of the Other in the European and Islamic Middle Ages 232
18. 12. Center and Periphery in the Teaching of Medieval History 247
19. Crisis and Renewal: From Late Medieval to Early Modern, 1300-1525 257
20. Contributors 273
21. Index 275