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1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. List of Illustrations IX
4. Introduction: An Essay on Language, Culture, and Identity: Medieval and Early Modern Perspectives on and Approaches to Communication, Translation, and Community 1
5. Ways of Communication and Mis/communication in Abū Tammām’s “Ode on the Conquest of Amorium” (838 C.E.) 95
6. Proscribed Communication: The Obscene Language of the Troubadour William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and VII Count of Poitiers 109
7. (Non)-Imaginary Ideal Communities in the Pre-Modern World: A Reading in the Utopian Works of al-Fārābi’, Ibn Khaldūn, Christine de Pizan, and Thomas More 159
8. A Jewish Moneylender, Miscommunication, and a Lie: Gonzalo de Berceo’s Milagro no. 23 191
9. Words, Signs, Meanings: William Langland’s Piers Plowman as a Window on Linguistic Chaos 209
10. The Chaucerian Translator 233
11. Entertainment, Laughter, and Reflections as a Training Ground for Communication in Public and Private: The Case of Heinrich Kaufringer, ca. 1400 255
12. …written in my own Jewish hand 291
13. Demonic Operators: Forbidden Relations in Medieval Communication 327
14. Paroemiac Expressions: A Touch of Color in the Ambassadors’ Diplomatic Correspondence in the Fifteenth Century 351
15. Communication and Translation in Early Modern Basque Society. The Role Played by the Public Notaries 379
16. Preventing Miscommunication: Early Modern German Surgeons as Specialized Translators 393
17. Reputation and Authority in the Physicians’ Communication with Patients as Reflected in the Czech-Language Sources of the Early Modern Period 415
18. The Physicians’ Community in Pre-Thirty Years’ War Bohemia 439
19. A Bond of True Love: Performing Courtship and Betrothal in Gower’s Cinkante balades and Spenser’s Amoretti, in Light of Christine de Pizan’s Cent balades 461
20. Noble Friendship in Relation to the Community: Hamlet and The Merchant of Venice 491
21. Deconstructing the (Mis)Interpretation of Paratextual Elements in Ross’s English Translation of the Qur’ān, The Alcoran of Mahomet (1649) 519
22. Community and the Others: Unveiling Boundaries in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice 551
23. Biographies of the Contributors 617
24. Index 627