Saracens and the making of English identity : the Auchinleck manuscript /
Siobhain Bly Calkin.
- 1 online resource (313 pages).
- Studies in medieval history and culture .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-292) and index.
The perils of proximity: Saracen knights, sameness, and differentiation -- Saracens and she-wolves: foreign consorts and group identity -- Monstrous intermingling and miraculous conversion: negotiating cultural borders in the King of Tars -- Saracens and English Christian identity in Seynt Katerine and Seynt Mergrete -- Saracens, Englishness, and productive violence in Of Arthour and Of Merlin.
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Auchinleck manuscript.
English literature--Islamic influences. Islam and literature--History--England--To 1500. National characteristics, English, in literature. Romances, English--History and criticism. Romances, English--Manuscripts. Manuscripts, Medieval--England. Manuscripts, English (Middle) Saracens in literature. Crusades in literature.
Islamic Empire--Foreign public opinion, English. Islamic Empire--In literature.