Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages: Transcultural PerspectivesMarkus Stock University of Toronto Press, 24.02.2016 - 296 Seiten In the Middle Ages, the life story of Alexander the Great was a well-traveled tale. Known in numerous versions, many of them derived from the ancient Greek Alexander Romance, it was told and re-told throughout Europe, India, the Middle East, and Central Asia. The essays collected in Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages examine these remarkable legends not merely as stories of conquest and discovery, but also as representations of otherness, migration, translation, cosmopolitanism, and diaspora. Alongside studies of the Alexander legend in medieval and early modern Latin, English, French, German, and Persian, Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages breaks new ground by examining rarer topics such as Hebrew Alexander romances, Coptic and Arabic Alexander materials, and early modern Malay versions of the Alexander legend. Brought together in this wide-ranging collection, these essays testify to the enduring fascination and transcultural adaptability of medieval stories about the extraordinary Macedonian leader. |
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Alexander Islam and the Quest for the Secrets of God | 51 |
Diaspora as Empire in the Hebrew Deeds of Alexander Maaseh Alexandros | 76 |
Alexander Aristotle and the Medieval Jewish Audience | 88 |
Wonder Islam and Knowledge of the World | 104 |
Patterns Sources and Motif Transformation | 123 |
Poet Protagonist and the Epic Alexander in Walter of Châtillons Alexandreis | 177 |
A Survey | 200 |
Le Roman dAlexandre en prose A Study of Ms Stockholm Royal Library Vu 20 | 217 |
Transformations from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period | 244 |
Contributors | 265 |
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Coptic Miniature Painting in the Arabic Alexander Romance | 153 |
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