1st Edition
Travellers, Intellectuals, and the World Beyond Medieval Europe
Edited By James Muldoon
Copyright 2010
406 Pages
by
Routledge
406 Pages
by
Routledge
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As the articles reprinted in this volume demonstrate, medieval men and women were curious about the world around them. They wanted to hear about distant lands and the various peoples who inhabited them. Travellers' tales, factual such as that of Marco Polo, and fictional, such as Chaucer's famous pilgrimage, entertained audiences across Europe. Colorful mappaemundi placed in churches illustrated... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Part I The Matter of Curiosity: Libertas Inquirendi and the Vitium Curiositatis in medieval thought, Edward Peters; Ecclesiastical attitudes to novelty c.1100-c.1250, Beryl Smalley; Medieval Christendom's encounter with the alien, Peter Jackson; The nature of the infidel: the anthropology of the canon lawyers, James Muldoon; Moslem-Christian understanding in medieval times, James Kritzeck; Knowing the enemy: Western understanding of Islam at the time of the crusades, Bernard Hamilton; Muhammad and the Muslims in St Thomas Aquinas, James Waltz. Part II The Muslim World - Crusade or Conversion?: From Friar Paul to Friar Raymond: the development of innovative missionizing argumentation, Robert Chazen; Talking to spiritual others: Ramon Llull, Nicholas of Cusa, Diego Valadés, Pauline Moffitt Watts; Saracen philosophers secretly deride Islam, John Tolan; Popular attitudes towards Islam in medieval Europe, Jo Ann Hoeppner Moran Cruz; William [of Malmesbury] and some other Western writers on Islam, Rodney M. Thomson. Part III The Mongol World: The conversion of a pagan society in the Middle Ages, Robert Bartlett; Missionaries and the marriages of infidels: the case of the Mongol mission, James Muldoon; Tartars, Jews, Saracens and the Jewish-Mongol 'plot' of 1241, Sophia Menache. Part IV Visualizing Knowledge of the World: Cartography in Europe and Islam in the Middle Ages, Norman J.W. Thrower; Some medieval theories about the Nile, O.G.S. Crawford; Shifting alterity: the Mongol in the visual and literary culture of the late Middle Ages, Maurizio Peleggi; Experiencing strangeness: monstrousness peoples on the edge of the Earth as depicted on medieval mappae mundi, Marina Münkler; Index.
Biography
James Muldoon is Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University, and Invited Research Scholar at The John Carter Brown Library at Brown University, USA
'Editor James Muldoon, who is also co-editor for the series, has woven a tapestry of essays that offer substantial insight into the perception of non-Europeans not only in medieval Europe but also in the academic discourse from the past half-century... The articles are well chosen and illustrate a cross-section of scholarship on intellectual curiosity over the past sixty years.' Terrae Incognitae
