Author: Guilelmus TyriusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Godeffroy of Boloyne Or The Siege and Conqueste of Jerusalem
Author: Guilelmus TyriusThe Cambridge History of English Literature
Author: Sir Adolphus William WardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Idols in the East
Author: Suzanne Conklin AkbariPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801464986
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Representations of Muslims have never been more common in the Western imagination than they are today. Building on Orientalist stereotypes constructed over centuries, the figure of the wily Arab has given rise, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, to the "Islamist" terrorist. In Idols in the East, Suzanne Conklin Akbari explores the premodern background of some of the Orientalist types still pervasive in present-day depictions of Muslims-the irascible and irrational Arab, the religiously deviant Islamist-and about how these stereotypes developed over time. Idols in the East contributes to the recent surge of interest in European encounters with Islam and the Orient in the premodern world. Focusing on the medieval period, Akbari examines a broad range of texts including encyclopedias, maps, medical and astronomical treatises, chansons de geste, romances, and allegories to paint an unusually diverse portrait of medieval culture. Among the texts she considers are The Book of John Mandeville, The Song of Roland, Parzival, and Dante's Divine Comedy. From them she reveals how medieval writers and readers understood and explained the differences they saw between themselves and the Muslim other. Looking forward, Akbari also comes to terms with how these medieval conceptions fit with modern discussions of Orientalism, thus providing an important theoretical link to postcolonial and postimperial scholarship on later periods. Far reaching in its implications and balanced in its judgments, Idols in the East will be of great interest to not only scholars and students of the Middle Ages but also anyone interested in the roots of Orientalism and its tangled relationship to modern racism and anti-Semitism.
Bulletin
Author: Cincinnati (Ohio), Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
Godeffroy of Boloyne
Author: William CaxtonPublisher:
ISBN: 9783337654924
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Annual List of Books Added to the Public Library of Cincinnati
Author: Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton CountyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Printing and the Book in Fifteenth-century England
Author: Walter Leo HeilbronnerPublisher: Charlottesville : Published for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia [by] University Press of Virginia
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Books in Series
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monographic series
Languages : en
Pages : 1404
Book Description
Vols. for 1980- issued in three parts: Series, Authors, and Titles.
Religious Books and Serials in Print
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Publishers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1596
Book Description
Godeffroy of Boloyne; Or, The Siege and Conqueste of Jerusalem
Author: William CaxtonPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781015845121
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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