Medieval Empires and the Culture of Competition : Literary Duels at Islamic and Christian Courts
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1474425224
ISBN-13
9781474425223
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Imprint
Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 31st, 2017
Print length
240 Pages
Weight
508 grams
Dimensions
16.50 x 24.10 x 2.10 cms
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Literary studies: classical, early & medievalMedieval history
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A probing inquiry into medieval court struggles, this book 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.
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.
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