Research Catalog

Title

Medieval Iberian crusade fiction and the Mediterranean world / David A. Wacks.

Author

Wacks, David A.

Publication

• Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Description

x, 278 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Reading crusader fiction against the backdrop of Mediterranean history, this book explains how Iberian authors reimagined the idea of Crusade through the lens of Iberian geopolitics and social history. The Crusades transformed Mediterranean history and inaugurated complex engagements between Western Europe, the Balkans, North Africa, and the Middle East in ways that endure to this day. Narratives of Crusades powerfully shaped European thinking about the East and continue to influence the representation of interaction between Christian and Muslim states in the region. The Crusade, a French idea that gave rise to Iberian, North African, and Levantine campaigns, was very much a Mediterranean phenomenon. French and English authors wrote itineraries in the Holy Land, chronicles of the Crusades, and fanciful accounts of Christian knights who championed the Latin Church in the East. This study aims to explore the ways in which Iberian authors imagined their role in the culture of Crusade, both as participants and interpreters of narrative traditions of the crusading world from north of the Pyrenees."--

Series Statement

Toronto Iberic ; 41

Uniform Title

Toronto Iberic ; 41.

Subjects

• Spanish fiction
• Fiction, Medieval
• To 1500
• Fiction, Medieval > History and criticism
• Crusades in literature
• Spanish fiction > To 1500 > History and criticism
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-256) and index.

Contents

Introduction: medieval Iberian crusade culture and the Mediterranean world -- Ziyad ibn 'Amir al-Kinani: Andalusi Muslim crusade fiction -- A knight errant in the Iberian crusade imaginary: Libro del Caballero Zifar -- Iberian missionary crusade in Ramon Llull's Blaquerna -- Romancing Iberian crusade: Crónica de flores y blancaflor -- Fiction and history in Tirant lo Blanch (Valencia, 1490) -- Conclusion.

Call Number

JFE 19-11627

ISBN

• 1487505019
• 9781487505011

OCLC

1090000900

Author

Wacks, David A., author.

Title

Medieval Iberian crusade fiction and the Mediterranean world / David A. Wacks.

Publisher

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Toronto Iberic ; 41

Toronto Iberic ; 41.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-256) and index.

Chronological Term

To 1500

Research Call Number

JFE 19-11627