Monstrous fantasies : England's crusading imaginary and the romance of recovery, 1300-1500
Leila K. Norako
Bok · Engelsk · 2024
| Omfang | XIII, 327 sider
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| Opplysninger | Becoming crusaders: vernacular romance and fantasies of recovery -- Of licit monsters and men: Richard Coer de Lyon and the politics of recovered history -- Precarious desires: Charlemagne and the bodies of recovery -- King of the future-past: Arthur and the temporalities of English conquest -- The romance of recovery in The Canterbury tales.. - "In the wake of the Muslim capture of Acre in 1291, literary works began to circulate around Europe that fantasized not only about the Christian European reconquest of the Holy Land but the wholesale conversion or slaughter of the 'infidels' who lived there. In medieval England-the focus of this book-these texts repurposed Arthurian and Charlemagne legends and historical romances to give voice to this trauma, cultural anxiety, and murderous xenophobia, even influencing Chaucer's Canterbury Tales."--
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| Emner | Crusades in literature
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| ISBN | 9781501776311
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