1st Edition
Saracens and the Making of English Identity The Auchinleck Manuscript
By Siobhain Bly Calkin
Copyright 2005
312 Pages
by
Routledge
312 Pages
by
Routledge
312 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores the ways in which discourses of religious, racial, and national identity blur and engage each other in the medieval West. Specifically, the book studies depictions of Muslims in England during the 1330s and argues that these depictions, although historically inaccurate, served to enhance and advance assertions of English national identity at this time. The book examines Saracen... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 The Perils of Proximity: Saracen Knights, Sameness, and Differentiation; Chapter 2 Saracens and She-Wolves: Foreign Consorts and Group Identity; Chapter 3; Chapter 4 Saracens and English Christian Identity in Seynt Katerine and Seynt Mergrete; Chapter 5; Chapter 6;
Biography
Francis G. Gentry, Siobhain Bly Calkin
