East Meets West in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: Transcultural Experiences in the Premodern World

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East Meets West in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times

Transcultural Experiences in the Premodern World

Edited by: Albrecht Classen

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2013

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Volume 14 | Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture

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This new volume explores the surprisingly intense and complex relationships between East and West during the Middle Ages and the early modern world, combining a large number of critical studies representing such diverse fields as literary (German, French, Italian, English, Spanish, and Arabic) and other subdisciplines of history, religion, anthropology, and linguistics. The differences between Islam and Christianity erected strong barriers separating two global cultures, but, as this volume indicates, despite many attempts to 'Other' the opposing side, the premodern world experienced an astonishing degree of contacts, meetings, exchanges, and influences. Scientists, travelers, authors, medical researchers, chroniclers, diplomats, and merchants criss-crossed the East and the West, or studied the sources produced by the other culture for many different reasons. As much as the theoretical concept of 'Orientalism' has been useful in sensitizing us to the fundamental tensions and conflicts separating both worlds at least since the eighteenth century, the premodern world did not quite yet operate in such an ideological framework. Even though the Crusades had violently pitted Christians against Muslims, there were countless contacts and a palpitable curiosity on both sides both before, during, and after those religious warfares.

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Albrecht Classen, The University of Arizona, Tucson, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Encounters Between East and West in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: Many Untold Stories About Connections and Contacts, Understanding and Misunderstanding Albrecht Classen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Chapter 1 Mirrors for Princes in Europe and the Middle East: A Case of Historiographical Incommensurability Linda T. Darling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	223
Chapter 2 Reframing the Monstrous: Visions of Desire and a Unified Christendom in the Anglo-Saxon Wonders of the East Courtney Catherine Barajas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	243
Chapter 3 Byzantium between East and West: Competing Hellenisms in the Alexiad of Anna Komnene and her Contemporaries Glen M. Cooper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	263
Chapter 4 Franks and Indigenous Communities in Palestine and Syria (1099–1187): A Hierarchical Model of Social Interaction in the Principalities of Outremer Alan V. Murray Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	291
Chapter 5 A Century of Communication and Acclimatization: Interpreters and Intermediaries in the Kingdom of Jerusalem K. A. Tuley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	311
Chapter 6 East Meets West and the Problem with Those Pictures Jens T. Wollesen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	341
Chapter 7 Walther von der Vogelweide and the Middle East: “Holy Land” and the Heathen Christopher R. Clason Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	389
Chapter 8 Wolfram’s Islam The Beliefs of the Muslim Pagans in Parzival and Willehalm Heiko Hartmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	427
Chapter 9 Crusading against Barbarians: Muslims as Barbarians in Crusades Era Sources Andrew Holt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	443
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 Albrecht Classen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	457
Chapter 11 Rūmī’s Mathnawī and the Roman de la Rose: The Space of Narrative Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	489
Chapter 12 The Moors in Thirteenth‐Century Spain: “They are Us!” Connie L. Scarborough Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	505
Chapter 13 The Reorientation of Roger Bacon: Muslims, Mongols, and the Man Who Knew Everything Mark T. Abate Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	523
Chapter 14 The Exotic and Fabulous East in The Travels of Sir John Mandeville: Understated Authenticity Jean E. Jost Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	575
Chapter 15 Merveilles du Monde: Marco Millioni, Mirabilia, and the Medieval Imagination, or the Impact of Genre on European Curiositas Scott L. Taylor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	595
Chapter 16 Embalming and Dissecting the Corpse between East and West: From Ar-Razi to Henry de Mondeville Romedio Schmitz-Esser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	611
Chapter 17 West-östliche Dialoge in der Mörin Hermanns von Sachsenheim (1453) Stefanie Helmschrott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	625
Chapter 18 La représentation de l’Orient dans les Essais de Montaigne Denis Bjaï Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	649
Chapter 19 The Strange Journey of Christian Rosencreutz Thomas Willard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	667
Chapter 20 Producing Yeni Dünya for an Ottoman Readership: The Travels of Ilyas bin Hanna al-Mawsuli in Colonial Latin America, 1675–1683 R. Rose Reza Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	699
Chapter 21 Orientalism in Early Modern Europe? Allison P. Coudert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	715
Chapter 22 A Seventeenth-Century French Merchant in the Orient: The Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Tavernier in Les six voyages Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	757
Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	781
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	787
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	797

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eBook published on:

September 3, 2013

eBook ISBN:

9783110321517

Hardcover published on:

August 19, 2013

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110328783

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Front matter:

9

Main content:

818

Illustrations:

30

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110321517

eBook ISBN: 9783110321517

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110328783

Keywords for this book

East-west contacts; toleration; orientalism; interculturality

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Catholic and muslim theologians, Religious historians

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