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

This volume explores the often problematic, but also productive relationships between East and West during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age, focusing on literary and pragmatic texts, scientific exchanges, strategies to build bridges to the other culture, and on parallel cultural developments...

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Autor principal:	Classen, Albrecht (-)
Formato:	Libro electrónico
Idioma:	Inglés
Publicado:	Berlin : De Gruyter 2013.
Colección:	EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete. Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture.
Acceso en línea:	Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:	https://innopac.unav.es/record=b30790293*spi

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Introduction: Encounters Between East and West in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: Many Untold Stories About Connections and Contacts, Understanding and Misunderstanding. Also an Introduction; 1. New Voices Reflecting Contacts Between Latin-Europa and the Muslim World; 2. Xenology and Intercultural Research; 3. Orientalism, Postcolonial Studies, and the Premodern World; 4. Economic, Political, and Cultural Connections: Ignored but Significant Features Under the Radar Screen; 5. Literary Reflections on the Foreign in Medieval Literature; 6. Arab Writers, Geographers, and Travelers; 7. St. Francis of Assisi's Attempt to Reach Out to the Saracens: The First Peaceful Missionizing in the Thirteenth Century; 8. The Christian Perspective: Pilgrimage to the Holy Land A First Step Into a Vast Field; 9. The Diplomat Pilgrim Bertrandon de la Broquière; 10. The Helpful Saracen in Margery Kempe's Book: A Mystical Woman's Perception of the Foreign World; 11. Locations of Contacts Between East and West; 12. Travel as a Medium of Cultural Contacts; 13. Curiosity Among Muslim Travelers?; 14. Jewish Travelers in the Middle Ages; 15. A Parallel Christian Travel Account and Literary Narrative: Fortunatus; 16. Jewish Communities in the Diaspora; 17. Historical Contacts Between East and West; 18. Rabbi Petachia of Ratisbona; 19. Additional Jewish Perspectives; 20. Christian Pilgrim Narratives in the Late Middle Ages; 21. The Most Astute Observer and Reporter: Felix Fabri; 22. A Brief Comparison with Giovanni Boccaccio: Decameron; 23. Trouble and Conflicts: Christian Pilgrims and Muslim Population; 24. Bernhard von Breydenbach's Peregrinatio; 25. Other Contacts and Contact Zones; 26. Europeans and the Ottoman World; 27. Anton von Pforr's German Adaptation of Indian Literature: Cross-Cultural Experiences in the Late Middle Ages; 28. Origin and Framework of this Volume; 29. Summaries of the Contributions and Critical Reflections; 30. Conclusion and Outlook
Chapter 1. Mirrors for Princes in Europe and the Middle East: A Case of Historiographical Incommensurability
Chapter 2. Reframing the Monstrous: Visions of Desire and a Unified Christendom in the Anglo-Saxon Wonders of the East
Chapter 3. Byzantium between East and West: Competing Hellenisms in the Alexiad of Anna Komnene and her Contemporaries
Chapter 4. Franks and Indigenous Communities in Palestine and Syria (1099-1187): A Hierarchical Model of Social Interaction in the Principalities of Outremer
Chapter 5. A Century of Communication and Acclimatization: Interpreters and Intermediaries in the Kingdom of Jerusalem
Chapter 6. East Meets West and the Problem with Those Pictures
Chapter 7. Walther von der Vogelweide and the Middle East: "Holy Land" and the Heathen
Chapter 8. Wolfram's Islam: The Beliefs of the Muslim Pagans in Parzival and Willehalm
Chapter 9. Crusading against Barbarians: Muslims as Barbarians in Crusades Era Sources
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
Chapter 11. Rumi's Mathnawi and the Roman de la Rose: The Space of Narrative
Chapter 12. The Moors in Thirteenth-Century Spain: "They are Us!"
Chapter 13. The Reorientation of Roger Bacon: Muslims, Mongols, and the Man Who Knew Everything
Chapter 15. Merveilles du Monde: Marco Millioni, Mirabilia, and the Medieval Imagination, or the Impact of Genre on European Curiositas
Chapter 16. Embalming and Dissecting the Corpse between East and West: From Ar-Razi to Henry de Mondeville
Chapter 17. West-östliche Dialoge in der Mörin Hermanns von Sachsenheim (1453)
Chapter 18. La représentation de l'Orient dans les Essais de Montaigne
Chapter 19. The Strange Journey of Christian Rosencreutz
Chapter 20. Producing Yeni Dünya for an Ottoman Readership: The Travels of Ilyas bin Hanna al-Mawsuli in Colonial Latin America, 1675-1683
Chapter 21. Orientalism in Early Modern Europe?
Chapter 22. A Seventeenth-Century French Merchant in the Orient: The Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Tavernier in Les six voyages.

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

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