×


 x 

Shopping cart
Jean Dangler - Making Difference in Medieval And Early Modern Iberia - 9780268025755 - V9780268025755
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.

Making Difference in Medieval And Early Modern Iberia

€ 107.73
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Making Difference in Medieval And Early Modern Iberia Hardcover. Examines the way that ideas of difference were forged in four types of medieval Iberian discourse. This book makes an important contribution to the growing interest in medieval Iberia and offers a nuance understanding of medieval history and culture in general. It will appeal to a broad range of medievalists. Num Pages: 240 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1DSE; HBJD; HBLC; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 269 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 590.

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 ... Read more

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.

Show Less

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
230
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268025755
SKU
V9780268025755
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

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

Reviews for Making Difference in Medieval And Early Modern Iberia
"This is a book of great importance. Dangler’s judicious and complex arguments are exemplary and in many ways the best ever written in this fraught area." —Maria Rosa Menocal, Yale University "Using an interesting and diverse assortment of texts—from the canonical to little studied 'cutting poems,' riddles, and medical texts—Dangler provides a fresh perspective on a medieval Iberia that sustained ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Making Difference in Medieval And Early Modern Iberia


Subscribe to our newsletter

News on special offers, signed editions & more!