The Resource Saracens and the Making of English Identity : the Auchinleck Manuscript
Saracens and the Making of English Identity : the Auchinleck Manuscript
Resource Information
The item Saracens and the Making of English Identity : the Auchinleck Manuscript represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Missouri University of Science & Technology Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Saracens and the Making of English Identity : the Auchinleck Manuscript represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Missouri University of Science & Technology Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- This book explores the ways in which discourses of religious, racial, and national identity blur and engage each other in the medieval West. Specifically, the book studies depictions of Muslims in England during the 1330s and argues that these depictions, although historically inaccurate, served to enhance and advance assertions of English national identity at this time. The book examines Saracen characters in a manuscript renowned for the variety of its texts, and discusses hagiographic legends, elaborations of chronicle entries, and popular romances about Charlemagne, Arthur, and various Eng
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (313 pages)
- Contents
-
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; MUSLIMS, SARACENS AND MEDIEVALISTS; THE AUCHINLECK MANUSCRIPT; IMAGINING ENGLISHNESS IN THE EARLY FOURTEENTH CENTURY; SARACENS AND THE MAKING OF ENGLISH IDENTITY; Chapter One The Perils of Proximity: Saracen Knights, Sameness, and Differentiation; INTRODUCTION; ENGLISH AND FRENCH POLITICAL PROXIMITY; ENGLISH AND FRENCH CULTURAL PROXIMITY; SAMENESS AND SARACENS; SAMENESS AND INTERPELLATIONS OF ALTERNATE IDENTITIES; WILLED DIFFERENTIATION
- WILLED IDENTITIES AND THE AUCHINLECK MANUSCRIPTTHE LIMITATIONS OF WILL: ALLEGIANCES, HIERARCHIES, AND WILLING AWRY; FRATERNIZING WITH THE ENEMY; DA CAPO AL FINE; Chapter Two Saracens and She-Wolves: Foreign Consorts and Group Identity; INTRODUCTION; THE SARACEN PRINCESS AND THE FOREIGN QUEEN; PERFORMING IDENTITY; PERMANENCE AND PASSING; AFFIRMATION; CODA: GOOD QUEEN/BAD QUEEN; Chapter Three Monstrous Intermingling and Miraculous Conversion: Negotiating Cultural Borders in Pe King of Tars; INTRODUCTION; INTEGRATING FOREIGNERS AND APPEALING TO ""INGLISCH"" IDENTITY
- THE LITERARY HISTORY OF PE KING OF TARSDEFINING, CONSTRUCTING, AND PROBLEMATIZING CULTURAL BORDERS IN PEKING OF TARS; MONSTROUS INTERMINGLING; CODA: AN ALTERNATE AUCHINLECK VISION OF CULTURAL INTEGRATION; Chapter Four Saracens and English Christian Identity in Seynt Katerine and Seynt Mergrete; INTRODUCTION; CONTEXTUALIZING SEYNT KATERINE, SEYNT MERGRETE, AND THE SARACENS THEREIN; SARACEN PERSECUTORS, THE AUCHINLECK CONTEXT, AND CHRISTIAN ENGLISH IDENTITY; SARACEN PERSECUTORS AND THE ELUCIDATION OF MODEL CHRISTIAN BEHAVIOR; SARACENS AND MUSLIMS; REJECTION AND IMAGINATIVE REDRESS
- CODA: CHRISTIANITY AND THE NEED FOR PERSECUTION ON DEMANDChapter Five Saracens, Englishness, and Productive Violence in OfArthour and Of Merlin; INTRODUCTION; THE TEXTUAL ORIGINS OF OFARTHOURAND OF MERLIN AND ITS SARACENS; ARTHURIAN SARACENS AND THE REPRESENTATION OF ENGLISH IDENTITY; SARACENS AND ENGLAND'S CRUSADING HERITAGE; SARACENS, HISTORY, AND THE HYBRID NATURE OF ENGLISH IDENTITY; THE BLESSINGS OF THE BAD PENNY: SARACENS, PRODUCTIVE VIOLENCE, AND ENGLISH POLITICAL IDENTITY; CODA: VERNACULARITY, VIOLENCE, AND THE PROLOGUE; Conclusion; Notes; NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION
- NOTES TO CHAPTER ONENOTES TO CHAPTER TWO; NOTES TO CHAPTER THREE; NOTES TO CHAPTER FOUR; NOTES TO CHAPTER FIVE; NOTES TO THE CONCLUSION; Appendix; ITEMS CONTAINED IN THE AUCHINLECK MANUSCRIPT; Bibliography; MEDIEVAL TEXTS; SECONDARY TEXTS; Subject Index
- Isbn
- 9781135471644
- Label
- Saracens and the Making of English Identity : the Auchinleck Manuscript
- Title
- Saracens and the Making of English Identity
- Title remainder
- the Auchinleck Manuscript
- Subject
-
- Auchinleck manuscript
- Auchinleck manuscript
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Crusades in literature
- Crusades in literature
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- England
- English literature -- Islamic influences
- History
- History
- Islam and literature
- Islam and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500
- Islamic Empire
- Islamic Empire -- Foreign public opinion, English
- Islamic Empire -- In literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literature
- Manuscripts
- Manuscripts
- Manuscripts, English (Middle)
- Manuscripts, English (Middle)
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Manuscripts, Medieval -- England
- National characteristics, English, in literature
- National characteristics, English, in literature
- Public opinion, English
- Romances, English
- Romances, English -- History and criticism
- Romances, English -- Manuscripts
- Saracens in literature
- Saracens in literature
- To 1500
- English literature -- Islamic influences
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This book explores the ways in which discourses of religious, racial, and national identity blur and engage each other in the medieval West. Specifically, the book studies depictions of Muslims in England during the 1330s and argues that these depictions, although historically inaccurate, served to enhance and advance assertions of English national identity at this time. The book examines Saracen characters in a manuscript renowned for the variety of its texts, and discusses hagiographic legends, elaborations of chronicle entries, and popular romances about Charlemagne, Arthur, and various Eng
- Cataloging source
- EBLCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Bly Calkin, Siobhain
- Dewey number
- 820.9/38297
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR129.I75 C35 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- Series statement
- Studies in Medieval History and Culture
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- English literature
- Islam and literature
- National characteristics, English, in literature
- Romances, English
- Romances, English
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Manuscripts, English (Middle)
- Saracens in literature
- Crusades in literature
- Islamic Empire
- Islamic Empire
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- Crusades in literature
- English literature
- Islam and literature
- Literature
- Manuscripts, English (Middle)
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- National characteristics, English, in literature
- Public opinion, English
- Romances, English
- Saracens in literature
- England
- Islamic Empire
- Label
- Saracens and the Making of English Identity : the Auchinleck Manuscript
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; MUSLIMS, SARACENS AND MEDIEVALISTS; THE AUCHINLECK MANUSCRIPT; IMAGINING ENGLISHNESS IN THE EARLY FOURTEENTH CENTURY; SARACENS AND THE MAKING OF ENGLISH IDENTITY; Chapter One The Perils of Proximity: Saracen Knights, Sameness, and Differentiation; INTRODUCTION; ENGLISH AND FRENCH POLITICAL PROXIMITY; ENGLISH AND FRENCH CULTURAL PROXIMITY; SAMENESS AND SARACENS; SAMENESS AND INTERPELLATIONS OF ALTERNATE IDENTITIES; WILLED DIFFERENTIATION
- WILLED IDENTITIES AND THE AUCHINLECK MANUSCRIPTTHE LIMITATIONS OF WILL: ALLEGIANCES, HIERARCHIES, AND WILLING AWRY; FRATERNIZING WITH THE ENEMY; DA CAPO AL FINE; Chapter Two Saracens and She-Wolves: Foreign Consorts and Group Identity; INTRODUCTION; THE SARACEN PRINCESS AND THE FOREIGN QUEEN; PERFORMING IDENTITY; PERMANENCE AND PASSING; AFFIRMATION; CODA: GOOD QUEEN/BAD QUEEN; Chapter Three Monstrous Intermingling and Miraculous Conversion: Negotiating Cultural Borders in Pe King of Tars; INTRODUCTION; INTEGRATING FOREIGNERS AND APPEALING TO ""INGLISCH"" IDENTITY
- THE LITERARY HISTORY OF PE KING OF TARSDEFINING, CONSTRUCTING, AND PROBLEMATIZING CULTURAL BORDERS IN PEKING OF TARS; MONSTROUS INTERMINGLING; CODA: AN ALTERNATE AUCHINLECK VISION OF CULTURAL INTEGRATION; Chapter Four Saracens and English Christian Identity in Seynt Katerine and Seynt Mergrete; INTRODUCTION; CONTEXTUALIZING SEYNT KATERINE, SEYNT MERGRETE, AND THE SARACENS THEREIN; SARACEN PERSECUTORS, THE AUCHINLECK CONTEXT, AND CHRISTIAN ENGLISH IDENTITY; SARACEN PERSECUTORS AND THE ELUCIDATION OF MODEL CHRISTIAN BEHAVIOR; SARACENS AND MUSLIMS; REJECTION AND IMAGINATIVE REDRESS
- CODA: CHRISTIANITY AND THE NEED FOR PERSECUTION ON DEMANDChapter Five Saracens, Englishness, and Productive Violence in OfArthour and Of Merlin; INTRODUCTION; THE TEXTUAL ORIGINS OF OFARTHOURAND OF MERLIN AND ITS SARACENS; ARTHURIAN SARACENS AND THE REPRESENTATION OF ENGLISH IDENTITY; SARACENS AND ENGLAND'S CRUSADING HERITAGE; SARACENS, HISTORY, AND THE HYBRID NATURE OF ENGLISH IDENTITY; THE BLESSINGS OF THE BAD PENNY: SARACENS, PRODUCTIVE VIOLENCE, AND ENGLISH POLITICAL IDENTITY; CODA: VERNACULARITY, VIOLENCE, AND THE PROLOGUE; Conclusion; Notes; NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION
- NOTES TO CHAPTER ONENOTES TO CHAPTER TWO; NOTES TO CHAPTER THREE; NOTES TO CHAPTER FOUR; NOTES TO CHAPTER FIVE; NOTES TO THE CONCLUSION; Appendix; ITEMS CONTAINED IN THE AUCHINLECK MANUSCRIPT; Bibliography; MEDIEVAL TEXTS; SECONDARY TEXTS; Subject Index
- Control code
- 862613648
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (313 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781135471644
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)862613648
- Label
- Saracens and the Making of English Identity : the Auchinleck Manuscript
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; MUSLIMS, SARACENS AND MEDIEVALISTS; THE AUCHINLECK MANUSCRIPT; IMAGINING ENGLISHNESS IN THE EARLY FOURTEENTH CENTURY; SARACENS AND THE MAKING OF ENGLISH IDENTITY; Chapter One The Perils of Proximity: Saracen Knights, Sameness, and Differentiation; INTRODUCTION; ENGLISH AND FRENCH POLITICAL PROXIMITY; ENGLISH AND FRENCH CULTURAL PROXIMITY; SAMENESS AND SARACENS; SAMENESS AND INTERPELLATIONS OF ALTERNATE IDENTITIES; WILLED DIFFERENTIATION
- WILLED IDENTITIES AND THE AUCHINLECK MANUSCRIPTTHE LIMITATIONS OF WILL: ALLEGIANCES, HIERARCHIES, AND WILLING AWRY; FRATERNIZING WITH THE ENEMY; DA CAPO AL FINE; Chapter Two Saracens and She-Wolves: Foreign Consorts and Group Identity; INTRODUCTION; THE SARACEN PRINCESS AND THE FOREIGN QUEEN; PERFORMING IDENTITY; PERMANENCE AND PASSING; AFFIRMATION; CODA: GOOD QUEEN/BAD QUEEN; Chapter Three Monstrous Intermingling and Miraculous Conversion: Negotiating Cultural Borders in Pe King of Tars; INTRODUCTION; INTEGRATING FOREIGNERS AND APPEALING TO ""INGLISCH"" IDENTITY
- THE LITERARY HISTORY OF PE KING OF TARSDEFINING, CONSTRUCTING, AND PROBLEMATIZING CULTURAL BORDERS IN PEKING OF TARS; MONSTROUS INTERMINGLING; CODA: AN ALTERNATE AUCHINLECK VISION OF CULTURAL INTEGRATION; Chapter Four Saracens and English Christian Identity in Seynt Katerine and Seynt Mergrete; INTRODUCTION; CONTEXTUALIZING SEYNT KATERINE, SEYNT MERGRETE, AND THE SARACENS THEREIN; SARACEN PERSECUTORS, THE AUCHINLECK CONTEXT, AND CHRISTIAN ENGLISH IDENTITY; SARACEN PERSECUTORS AND THE ELUCIDATION OF MODEL CHRISTIAN BEHAVIOR; SARACENS AND MUSLIMS; REJECTION AND IMAGINATIVE REDRESS
- CODA: CHRISTIANITY AND THE NEED FOR PERSECUTION ON DEMANDChapter Five Saracens, Englishness, and Productive Violence in OfArthour and Of Merlin; INTRODUCTION; THE TEXTUAL ORIGINS OF OFARTHOURAND OF MERLIN AND ITS SARACENS; ARTHURIAN SARACENS AND THE REPRESENTATION OF ENGLISH IDENTITY; SARACENS AND ENGLAND'S CRUSADING HERITAGE; SARACENS, HISTORY, AND THE HYBRID NATURE OF ENGLISH IDENTITY; THE BLESSINGS OF THE BAD PENNY: SARACENS, PRODUCTIVE VIOLENCE, AND ENGLISH POLITICAL IDENTITY; CODA: VERNACULARITY, VIOLENCE, AND THE PROLOGUE; Conclusion; Notes; NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION
- NOTES TO CHAPTER ONENOTES TO CHAPTER TWO; NOTES TO CHAPTER THREE; NOTES TO CHAPTER FOUR; NOTES TO CHAPTER FIVE; NOTES TO THE CONCLUSION; Appendix; ITEMS CONTAINED IN THE AUCHINLECK MANUSCRIPT; Bibliography; MEDIEVAL TEXTS; SECONDARY TEXTS; Subject Index
- Control code
- 862613648
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (313 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781135471644
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)862613648
Subject
- Auchinleck manuscript
- Auchinleck manuscript
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Crusades in literature
- Crusades in literature
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- England
- English literature -- Islamic influences
- History
- History
- Islam and literature
- Islam and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500
- Islamic Empire
- Islamic Empire -- Foreign public opinion, English
- Islamic Empire -- In literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literature
- Manuscripts
- Manuscripts
- Manuscripts, English (Middle)
- Manuscripts, English (Middle)
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Manuscripts, Medieval -- England
- National characteristics, English, in literature
- National characteristics, English, in literature
- Public opinion, English
- Romances, English
- Romances, English -- History and criticism
- Romances, English -- Manuscripts
- Saracens in literature
- Saracens in literature
- To 1500
- English literature -- Islamic influences
Genre
Member of
Library Links
Embed
Settings
Select options that apply then copy and paste the RDF/HTML data fragment to include in your application
Embed this data in a secure (HTTPS) page:
Layout options:
Include data citation:
<div class="citation" vocab="http://schema.org/"><i class="fa fa-external-link-square fa-fw"></i> Data from <span resource="http://link.library.mst.edu/portal/Saracens-and-the-Making-of-English-Identity--the/z38v5BI2b4k/" typeof="Book http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/Item"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a href="http://link.library.mst.edu/portal/Saracens-and-the-Making-of-English-Identity--the/z38v5BI2b4k/">Saracens and the Making of English Identity : the Auchinleck Manuscript</a></span> - <span property="potentialAction" typeOf="OrganizeAction"><span property="agent" typeof="LibrarySystem http://library.link/vocab/LibrarySystem" resource="http://link.library.mst.edu/"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a property="url" href="http://link.library.mst.edu/">Missouri University of Science & Technology Library</a></span></span></span></span></div>
Note: Adjust the width and height settings defined in the RDF/HTML code fragment to best match your requirements
Preview
Cite Data - Experimental
Data Citation of the Item Saracens and the Making of English Identity : the Auchinleck Manuscript
Copy and paste the following RDF/HTML data fragment to cite this resource
<div class="citation" vocab="http://schema.org/"><i class="fa fa-external-link-square fa-fw"></i> Data from <span resource="http://link.library.mst.edu/portal/Saracens-and-the-Making-of-English-Identity--the/z38v5BI2b4k/" typeof="Book http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/Item"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a href="http://link.library.mst.edu/portal/Saracens-and-the-Making-of-English-Identity--the/z38v5BI2b4k/">Saracens and the Making of English Identity : the Auchinleck Manuscript</a></span> - <span property="potentialAction" typeOf="OrganizeAction"><span property="agent" typeof="LibrarySystem http://library.link/vocab/LibrarySystem" resource="http://link.library.mst.edu/"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a property="url" href="http://link.library.mst.edu/">Missouri University of Science & Technology Library</a></span></span></span></span></div>
