By Lisa Lampert-Weissig
During this large advent to a wealthy new quarter of study, Lisa Lamper-Weissig examines the old connections among postcolonial and medieval stories, accomplishing new readings of key medieval texts from diversified eu traditions. those contain Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, Bernard Mandeville's Travels, and Guillaume de Palerne, a French romance poem approximately werewolves set in Norman Sicily. Lampert additionally accommodates insights from later fiction set within the medieval interval, corresponding to Walter Scott's Ivanhoe and modern works by way of Salman Rushdie, Tariq Ali, Juan Goytisolo, and Amitav Ghosh. those attention-grabbing comparisons attach postcolonial medievalisms to present matters, together with the problem of race within the 2008 presidential elections, the thesis at the back of Samuel Huntington's conflict of Civilisations, and the way forward for Islam in Europe. This quantity incorporates a valuable timeline, reproductions of medieval maps, and a bibliography with extra readings.
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I will briefly discuss debates surrounding postcolonial medieval studies and then go on to examine the historical context for the development of medieval studies and medievalisms in the nineteenth century and crucial links in this development to formative elements in European nationalism and colonialism. Navigating the Field: Postcolonial Medieval Literary Studies Postcolonial studies challenges Eurocentric geographic and temporal paradigms and also critiques cultural hegemonies and inequalities.
The stakes in these discussions can sometimes be very high. Suzanne Akbari’s exploration of the close connection between representations of Jews and Muslims in the Middle Ages has important implications for contemporary Orientalism. It reveals the historical grounds for Said’s statement that ‘The transference of a popular anti-Semitic animus from a Jewish to an Arab target was made smoothly, since the figure was essentially the same’ (Said 1994: 286). In doing so, Akbari’s work opens new paths for the study of Orientalism, antisemitism and Islamophobia.
The Turks take Otranto Boabdil rebels against his father, Abu-al-Hasan, and seizes Granada Diego Cão, a Portuguese mariner, reaches the Congo. The Portuguese make a settlement on the Gold Coast Torquemada appointed inquisitor general of Castilla and Aragón Expulsion of Jews from Warsaw End of the War of the Roses; Henry Tudor becomes King Henry VII of England Portuguese settle the West African island of São Tomé Ahuizotl reigns as tlatoani of the Aztec Empire Bartolomeu Dias rounds the Cape of Storms (renamed later of Good Hope) and explores the Indian Ocean and the East African coast Columbus’s first voyage Fall of last Muslim stronghold in Iberia, Granada.