Strangers at the gate! : : multidisciplinary explorations of communities, borders, and othering in medieval western Europe / / edited by S.C. Thomson.

• TeilnehmendeR: Thomson, Simon C.,
• Place / Publishing House: BRILL, 2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English

"This volume showcases a range of different approaches to strangers and strangeness across medieval western Europe. It focuses on how communities responded to the arrival of strangers and to different ways in which individuals and groups were constructed as estranged. Further, it reflects on di...

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• List of figures and tables
• Notes on contributors
• Introduction: fearing, facing, and being a stranger / S.C. Thomson
• Studying communication in the margins of medieval society / Marco Mostert
• HITting on migration in the murky Middle Ages: advocating an interdisciplinary approach, a case study in Old English/Old Norse language contact / Florian Dolberg
• The language of the mute strangers: the ambivalent position of the German language in the late medieval Polish Kingdom / Anna Adamska
• How foreigners entered Italian cities in the fifteenth century: the case of Bologna / Beatrice Saletti
• Little Flanders beyond Wales: the historical context of Flemish settlement landscapes in South Pembrokeshire / Gerben Verbrugghe and Wim De Clercq
• Repopulating the city with strangers: the forced colonization of Arras by the king of France Louis XI (1479-1484) / Adrien Carbonnet
• Strangers in the cathedral: place, landscape and nostalgia in Symeon of Durham's Libellus de Exordio / Euan McCartney Robson
• Resident stranger: Sæmundr in the Ashkenaz / Richard North
• The perils of Medieval bridges: Gregory, Grendel and Gawain / Susan Irvine
• Strange confessions: salvation and prayers for the dead in Caesarius of Heisterbach's Dialogue on Miracles / Joshua S. Easterling
• Placing the green children of Woolpit / James Plumtree
• Afterword / Sherif Abdelkarim
• Bibliography
• Index.