Vernacular and Latin Literary Discourses of the Muslim Other in Medieval Germany

Little attention has been focused the representation of Muslims in medieval Germany. Proceeding from a grounded use of contemporary cultural theory and close textual analysis, this study focuses Muslims in several core texts representing drama, epic, and lyric written by the most important writers of medieval Germany. Far from simply adding medieval Germany to the growing scholarly list of the 'pre-post-colonializing' European cultures, the study provides important new perspectives.

Autorentext
JEROLD C. FRAKES Professor of English at SUNY Buffalo, USA. He is the author, editor, or translator of over ten books, including The Cultural Study of Yiddish in Early Modern Europe.

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Ludus as Prelude Discourses of the Muslim Other Muslims in Hrotsvit's 'Pelagius' and the Ludus de Antichristo Mandatory Muslim Metamorphosis in Crusader Epic Wolfram von Eschenbach, Gyburc, and Tolerance Walther von der Vogelweide, Crusader Lyric and the Discourse of the Other A Twelfth-Century Paradigm Shift?