This collection of essays explores the dialogue between Arabic and European cultures during the medieval period starting from the year 700. Using critical approaches the contributors examine a variety of thematic and cultural concerns.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references Bibliography of works by Mahmoud Manzalaoui": p. 299-303
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 820.9/001
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 0776605178 9780776615950
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- PN681
- LCCN Item number
- F76 1999eb
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- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (viii, 307 p.)
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- CaOOCEL
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- (CaBNVSL)jme00326804 (OCoLC)181843521 (CaOOCEL)403640
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgements 8
- Abbreviations 9
- Introduction 10
- Images of Europe and Europeans in Some Medieval Arabic Sources 18
- The First Patriarchate of Gennadios II Scholarios as Reflected in a Pastoral Letter 34
- Arabic and Hebrew auctoritates in the Works of Enrique de Villena 48
- "Ad restringuendum coytum": How to Cool Lust 70
- The Compulsions of Honour 84
- Another Look at an Old 'Science': Chaucer's Pilgrims and Physiognomy 102
- Voices of the Tabard: The Last Tales of the Canterbury Tales 122
- Courtly Hagiomythography and Chaucer's Tripartite Genre Critique in the Legend of Good Women 140
- Coleridge's Sublime and Langland's Subject in the Pardon Scene of Piers Plowman 164
- "Whilom, as olde stories tellen us": The Discourse Marker whilom in Middle English 184
- The Writings of Hilary of Poitiers in Medieval Britain from c. 700 to c. 1330 210
- Ge mid wige ge mid wisdome: Alfred's Double-Edged Sword 226
- The Oldest Folk Poetry? Medieval Woman's Song as "Popular" Lyric 238
- The Pageant of the Sins 262
- John Ruskin's Medievalism 274
- Sub Rosa: Umberto Eco and the Medievalist Mystery Story 292
- Bibliography of Works by Mahmoud Manzalaoui 308
- List of Contributors 314
