East Meets West in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times : : Transcultural Experiences in the Premodern World / / ed. by Albrecht Classen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Abate, Mark T.,; Barajas, Courtney Catherine,; Bjaï, Denis,; Clason, Christopher R.,; Classen, Albrecht,; Cooper, Glen M.,; Coudert, Allison P.,; Darling, Linda T.,; Hartmann, Heiko,; Helmschrott, Stefanie,; Holt, Andrew,; Jost, Jean E.,; Murray, Alan V.,; Reza, R. Rose,; Scarborough, Connie L.,; Schmitz-Esser, Romedio,; Taylor, Scott L.,; Tuley, K. A.,; Willard, Thomas,; Wollesen, Jens T.,
• HerausgeberIn: Classen, Albrecht,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture , 14
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (818 p.)

This new volume explores the surprisingly intense and complex relationships between East and West during the Middle Ages and the early modern world, combining a large number of critical studies representing such diverse fields as literary (German, French, Italian, English, Spanish, and Arabic) and o...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Encounters Between East and West in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: Many Untold Stories About Connections and Contacts, Understanding and Misunderstanding
• 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 Rūmī’s Mathnawī 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 14 The Exotic and Fabulous East in The Travels of Sir John Mandeville: Understated Authenticity
• 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
• Illustrations
• Contributors
• Index