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Religious Conversion in Medieval Romance: Religious Conversion, History, and Genre in Floire Et Blancheflor, Aucassin et Nicolette, and Flamenca - Couverture souple

Segol, Marla

 
9783845442631: Religious Conversion in Medieval Romance: Religious Conversion, History, and Genre in Floire Et Blancheflor, Aucassin et Nicolette, and Flamenca
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ISBN 10 : 3845442638 ISBN 13 : 9783845442631
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

This project examines representations of conversion in the twelfth and thirteenth century romances, the Old French Floire et Blancheflor, Aucassin et Nicolette, and Flamenca. In these works, the figure of the convert is used to articulate and elaborate internal social concerns. The twelfth century was less a time of the ‘rise of the individual’ than a time of the individual thought in relation to others. In this way, understanding the self depends both on the 'other' to whom the self relates and the framing of that relation. These works position the native self in relation to the Saracen other, probing their relation through the structures of religious conversion. The framework of religious conversion provides a vocabulary to express and examine cultural difference, cultural absorption and assimilation of new knowledge and technologies of Arabic culture. Temporal history in turn consists of both nativist, monoculturally formulated histories and more relational models formulated with a view toward articulating a more cosmopolitan, interrelated view of culture and as such, the self. The literary treatments of conversion were used to probe the problematics of these discourses.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This project examines representations of conversion in the twelfth and thirteenth century romances, the Old French Floire et Blancheflor, Aucassin et Nicolette, and Flamenca. In these works, the figure of the convert is used to articulate and elaborate internal social concerns. The twelfth century was less a time of the ‘rise of the individual’ than a time of the individual thought in relation to others. In this way, understanding the self depends both on the 'other' to whom the self relates and the framing of that relation. These works position the native self in relation to the Saracen other, probing their relation through the structures of religious conversion. The framework of religious conversion provides a vocabulary to express and examine cultural difference, cultural absorption and assimilation of new knowledge and technologies of Arabic culture. Temporal history in turn consists of both nativist, monoculturally formulated histories and more relational models formulated with a view toward articulating a more cosmopolitan, interrelated view of culture and as such, the self. The literary treatments of conversion were used to probe the problematics of these discourses.

Biographie de l'auteur

Marla Segol was born in Buffalo, New York and completed her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Rutgers University in 2001. She has published several articles and two books including “Word and Image in Medieval Kabbalah,” (Palgrave April 2012), and “Sexuality and Cosmology in Medieval Literary Texts,” co-edited with Jennifer N. Brown.

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3845442638
ISBN 13 
9783845442631
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
260
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