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020 _a9781474425223
020 _a1474425224
035 _a(OCoLC)ocn986237046
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100 1 _aEngland, Samuel
_eauthor.
_9812449
245 1 0 _aMedieval empires and the culture of competition:
_bLiterary duels at Islamic and Christian courts
260 _aEdinburgh, UK:
_bEdinburgh University Press,
_c2017.
264 1 _c[2017]
264 4 _c©2017
300 _aviii, 230p.;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
365 _b19.99
_cUKP
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 188-224) and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: courtly gifts, imperial rewards -- 'Baghdad is to cities what the master is to mankind': the rise of vizier culture -- The sovereign and the foreign: creating Saladin in Arabic literature of the Counter-Crusade -- Alfonso X: poetry of miracles and domination -- Saladino Rinato: Spanish and Italian courtly fictions of Crusade -- Conclusion: the Ministry of Culture.
520 _a"A probing inquiry into medieval court struggles, this book shows the relationship between intellectual conflict and the geopolitics of empire. It examines the Persian Buyids' takeover of the great Arab caliphate in Iraq, the counter-Crusade under Saladin, and the literature of sovereignty in Spain and Italy at the cusp of the Renaissance. The question of high culture--who best qualified as a poet, the function of race and religion in forming a courtier, what languages to use in which official ceremonies--drove much of medieval writing, and even policy itself. From the last moments of the Abbasid Empire, to the military campaign for Jerusalem, to the rise of Crusades literature in spoken Romance languages, authors and patrons took a competitive stance as a way to assert their place in a shifting imperial landscape."--Back cover.
650 0 _aCourts and courtiers
_xHistory
_yTo 1500.
_9812450
650 0 _aAuthors, Medieval
_xLanguage.
_9812451
650 0 _aChristianity
_9812452
650 0 _aMuslim
_9812453
650 0 _aLanguage and languages
_xPolitical aspects
_xHistory
_yTo 1500.
_9812454
650 0 _aPolitics and literature
_xHistory
_yTo 1500.
_9812455
650 0 _aLiterature, Medieval
_xHistory and criticism.
_9812456
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