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Subject(s)

• Spanish fiction—To 1500—History and criticism [Browse]
• Fiction, Medieval—History and criticism [Browse]
• Crusades in literature [Browse]

Series

• Toronto Iberic ; 41. [More in this series]
• Toronto Iberic ; 41 [More in this series]

Summary note

"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."--Jacket flap.

Bibliographic references

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.

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ISBN

• 1487505019
• 9781487505011

OCLC

1090000900

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