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Vernacular and Latin Literary Discourses of the Muslim Other in Medieval Germany (The New Middle Ages)
Vernacular and Latin Literary Discourses of the Muslim Other in Medieval Germany - The New Middle Ages Author:Jerold C. Frakes Little attention has been focused on the representation of Muslims in medieval Germany. Proceeding from a grounded use of contemporary cultural theory and close textual analysis, this study analyzes the role of Muslims in several core texts representing drama, epic, and lyric written by the most important writers of medieval Germany. Far from si... more »mply adding medieval Germany to the growing scholarly list of the ?pre-post-colonializing? European cultures, this study provides important new perspectives.« less