Making Difference: in Medieval And Early Modern Iberia - Couverture rigide

Dangler, Jean

 
9780268025755: Making Difference: in Medieval And Early Modern Iberia
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ISBN 10 : 0268025754 ISBN 13 : 9780268025755
Editeur : University of Notre Dame Press, 2005

Synopsis

In this engaging study Jean Dangler examines the way that ideas of difference were forged in four types of medieval Iberian discourse: muwashshah/jarcha poems from al-Andalus, Andalusi "cutting poems," medical literature about the body, and portrayals of the monster. According to Dangler, these texts demonstrate the two fundamental precepts of medieval Iberian alterity: multifaceted subject formation and the embrace of contrasts and the negative.

Medieval Iberia was a multicultural territory of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian societies. These communities had constant geographic, cultural, political, and economic contact with one another. Because medieval Iberia was not hierarchical and homogenous, medieval subjectivity was not always marked by essential qualities of character, but was mutable and shifting. The adverse was often esteemed in the making of meaning and the forging of the social order. Dangler explores how the four discourses she analyzes changed in the early modern period, from an acceptance of difference to more rigid concepts of subjectivity and the marginalization of difference. This shift accompanied the rise of the Castilian nation-state and its imposition of static hierarchies of value.

This book will appeal to a broad range of medievalists. It makes an important contribution to the growing interest in medieval Iberia and offers a nuanced understanding of medieval history and culture in general.

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À propos de l?auteur

Jean Dangler is a professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Tulane University.

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Éditeur
University of Notre Dame Press
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0268025754
ISBN 13 
9780268025755
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
230
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ISBN 10 :  0268025762 ISBN 13 :  9780268025762
Editeur : University of Notre Dame Press, 2005
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