Medieval Iberian Crusade Fiction and the Mediterranean World

David A. Wacks

Published by University of Toronto Press 2019

Medieval Iberian Crusade Fiction and the Mediterranean World

David A. Wacks

In the series Toronto Iberic

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487531348

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About this book

Medieval Iberian authors adapted French crusader culture to give voice to their own reality, shaped by domestic military conflict with Islam and an obsession with the conversion of subject Muslims and Jews.

Author / Editor information

Wacks David A. :

David A. Wacks is a professor of Spanish at the University of Oregon.

Reviews

Adam Franklin-Lyons, Marlboro College:

"David Wacks describes admirably how the complex connections and imagination of distant geography brought literary figures, tropes, and ideals into surprising contact, allowing us to see the worlds of these five literary works in new ways. Each of the chapters presents a readable and compelling view of the fictional work set in a broad social and narrative history of the crusades and crusade ideologies that drove both fictional production and real political decisions."

Jean Dangler, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Tulane University:

"David A. Wacks’s engaging and innovative book situates medieval Iberian crusade fiction in a broad Mediterranean framework, an approach that is sure to encourage further critical debate."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Note on Translation and Transliteration Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction: Medieval Iberian Crusade Culture and the Mediterranean World Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
1. Ziyad ibn ‘Amir al-Kinani: Andalusi Muslim Crusade Fiction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
2. A Knight Errant in the Iberian Crusade Imaginary: Libro del Caballero Zifar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
3. Iberian Missionary Crusade in Ramon Llull’s Blaquerna Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
4. Romancing Iberian Crusade: Crónica de Flores y Blancaflor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
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Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 296
Keywords: Crusades Medieval Iberian Literature; Blaquerna; al-Andalus; Mediterranean Studies; Flores y Blancaflor; Tirant lo Blanc; Joanot de Matorell; Holy Land; chronicles of the Crusades; literary history

eBook

Published: July 11, 2019
ISBN: 9781487531348