- Description
- 1 online resource (viii, 230 pages)
- Summary
- "A probing inquiry into medieval court struggles, this book shows the relationship between intellectual conflict and the geopolitics of empire. It examines the Persian Buyids' takeover of the great Arab caliphate in Iraq, the counter-Crusade under Saladin, and the literature of sovereignty in Spain and Italy at the cusp of the Renaissance. The question of high culture--who best qualified as a poet, the function of race and religion in forming a courtier, what languages to use in which official ceremonies--drove much of medieval writing, and even policy itself. From the last moments of the Abbasid Empire, to the military campaign for Jerusalem, to the rise of Crusades literature in spoken Romance languages, authors and patrons took a competitive stance as a way to assert their place in a shifting imperial landscape."--Back cover.
- Uniform Title
- Medieval empires and the culture of competition (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Medieval empires and the culture of competition (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-224) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Terms of Use (note)
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.
- Contents
- Introduction: courtly gifts, imperial rewards -- 'Baghdad is to cities what the master is to mankind': the rise of vizier culture -- The sovereign and the foreign: creating Saladin in Arabic literature of the Counter-Crusade -- Alfonso X: poetry of miracles and domination -- Saladino Rinato: Spanish and Italian courtly fictions of Crusade -- Conclusion: the Ministry of Culture.
- LCCN
- 2020718031
- OCLC
- ssj0002070102
- Author
England, Samuel.
- Title
Medieval empires and the culture of competition [electronic resource] : literary duels at Islamic and Christian courts / Samuel England.
- Imprint
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-224) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Terms Of Use
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
- Note
Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.
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- Other Form:
Print version: Medieval empires and the culture of competition Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017] 9781474425223 (DLC) 2018300284