Meeting the Foreign in the Middle Ages

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Albrecht Classen
Psychology Press, 2002 - 274 pages
This collectoion brings together an outstanding group of historical, cultural, and literary scholars to investigate the complicated, nuanced, and often surprising union and desire and dread associated with the figure of the foreign Other in the Middle Ages--represented variously by Muslims, Jews, heretics, pagans, homosexuals, lepers, monsters, and witches. Exploring the diverse manifestations of the foreign in medieval literature, historical documents, religous treatises, and art, these essays mine the traces of unprecedented encounters in which fascination and fear meet.
 

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CHAPTER
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CHAPTER 3
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CHAPTER 4
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THE MEDIEVAL
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CHAPTER 6
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CHAPTER 8
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CHAPTER 9
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CHAPTER 10
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CHAPTER 11
187
DESIGNATING JEWS AND MUSLIMS
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CHAPTER 13
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CHAPTER 14
249
Contributors
268

IMAGINING RACE IN LATE MEDIEVAL
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Albert Classen, PhD., is Professor of German at the University of Arizona.

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