Chapter 3 Byzantium between East and West: Competing Hellenisms in the Alexiad of Anna Komnene and her Contemporaries

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Encounters Between East and West in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: Many Untold Stories About Connections and Contacts, Understanding and Misunderstanding 1
4. Chapter 1 Mirrors for Princes in Europe and the Middle East: A Case of Historiographical Incommensurability 223
5. Chapter 2 Reframing the Monstrous: Visions of Desire and a Unified Christendom in the Anglo-Saxon Wonders of the East 243
6. Chapter 3 Byzantium between East and West: Competing Hellenisms in the Alexiad of Anna Komnene and her Contemporaries 263
7. Chapter 4 Franks and Indigenous Communities in Palestine and Syria (1099–1187): A Hierarchical Model of Social Interaction in the Principalities of Outremer 291
8. Chapter 5 A Century of Communication and Acclimatization: Interpreters and Intermediaries in the Kingdom of Jerusalem 311
9. Chapter 6 East Meets West and the Problem with Those Pictures 341
10. Chapter 7 Walther von der Vogelweide and the Middle East: “Holy Land” and the Heathen 389
11. Chapter 8 Wolfram’s Islam The Beliefs of the Muslim Pagans in Parzival and Willehalm 427
12. Chapter 9 Crusading against Barbarians: Muslims as Barbarians in Crusades Era Sources 443
13. Chapter 10 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 457
14. Chapter 11 Rūmī’s Mathnawī and the Roman de la Rose: The Space of Narrative 489
15. Chapter 12 The Moors in Thirteenth‐Century Spain: “They are Us!” 505
16. Chapter 13 The Reorientation of Roger Bacon: Muslims, Mongols, and the Man Who Knew Everything 523
17. Chapter 14 The Exotic and Fabulous East in The Travels of Sir John Mandeville: Understated Authenticity 575
18. Chapter 15 Merveilles du Monde: Marco Millioni, Mirabilia, and the Medieval Imagination, or the Impact of Genre on European Curiositas 595
19. Chapter 16 Embalming and Dissecting the Corpse between East and West: From Ar-Razi to Henry de Mondeville 611
20. Chapter 17 West-östliche Dialoge in der Mörin Hermanns von Sachsenheim (1453) 625
21. Chapter 18 La représentation de l’Orient dans les Essais de Montaigne 649
22. Chapter 19 The Strange Journey of Christian Rosencreutz 667
23. Chapter 20 Producing Yeni Dünya for an Ottoman Readership: The Travels of Ilyas bin Hanna al-Mawsuli in Colonial Latin America, 1675–1683 699
24. Chapter 21 Orientalism in Early Modern Europe? 715
25. Chapter 22 A Seventeenth-Century French Merchant in the Orient: The Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Tavernier in Les six voyages 757
26. Illustrations 781
27. Contributors 787
28. Index 797