Medieval empires and the culture of competition : : literary duels at Islamic and Christian courts / / Samuel England.
"A probing inquiry into medieval court struggles, this book shows the relationship between intellectual conflict and the geopolitics of empire. It examines the Persian Buyids' takeover of the great Arab caliphate in Iraq, the counter-Crusade under Saladin, and the literature of sovereignty...
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| Superior document: | Edinburgh scholarship online |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press,, 2019. |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh scholarship online.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 230 pages) |
| Notes: | Previously issued in print: 2017. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: courtly gifts, imperial rewards
- 'Baghdad is to cities what the master is to mankind': the rise of vizier culture
- The sovereign and the foreign: creating Saladin in Arabic literature of the Counter-Crusade
- Alfonso X: poetry of miracles and domination
- Saladino Rinato: Spanish and Italian courtly fictions of Crusade
- Conclusion: the Ministry of Culture.