From Arabye to Engelond,9780776605173

From Arabye to Engelond

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ISBN13: 9780776605173
ISBN10: 0776605178
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-08-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Ottawa Pr
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

A.E. Christa Canitz is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature Program at the University of New Brunswick. Gernot R. Wieland is a Professor of English at the University of British Columbia

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii
Abbreviations viii
Introduction 1(8)
Images of Europe and Europeans in Some Medieval Arabic Sources
9(16)
Hanna E. Kassis
The First Patriarchate of Gennadios II Scholarios as Reflected in a Pastoral Letter
25(14)
C. J. G. Turner
Arabic and Hebrew auctoritates in the Works of Enrique de Villena
39(22)
Derek C. Carr
``Ad restringuendum coytum'': How to Cool Lust
61(14)
Beryl Rowland
The Compulsions of Honour
75(18)
Derek Brewer
Another Look at an Old `Science': Chaucer's Pilgrims and Physiognomy
93(20)
Douglas Wurtele
Voices of the Tabard: The Last Tales of the Canterbury Tales
113(18)
J. Kieran Kealy
Courtly Hagiomythography and Chaucer's Tripartite Genre Critique in the Legend of Good Women
131(24)
A. E. Christa Canitz
Coleridge's Sublime and Langland's Subject in the Pardon Scene of Piers Plowman
155(20)
Murray J. Evans
``Whilom, as olde stories tellen us'': The Discourse Marker whilom in Middle English
175(26)
Laurel J. Brinton
The Writings of Hilary of Poitiers in Medieval Britain from c. 700 to c. 1330
201(16)
Paul C. Burns
Ge mid wige ge mid wisdome: Alfred's Double-Edged Sword
217(12)
Gernot R. Wieland
The Oldest Folk Poetry? Medieval Woman's Song as ``Popular'' Lyric
229(24)
Anne L. Klinck
The Pageant of the Sins
253(12)
John Mills
John Ruskin's Medievalism
265(18)
Elisabeth Brewer
Sub Rosa: Umberto Eco and the Medievalist Mystery Story
283(16)
Patricia Merivale
Bibliography of Works 299(6)
Mahmoud Manzalaoui
List of Contributors 305

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