Medieval Empires and the Culture of Competition: Literary Duels at Islamic and Christian Courts 1474425259, 9781474425254

Medieval Empires and the Culture of Competition: Literary Duels at Islamic and Christian Courts 1474425224, 9781474425223

A probing inquiry into medieval court struggles, this book shows the relationship between intellectual conflict and the

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Medieval Empires and the Culture of Competition: Literary Duels at Islamic and Christian Courts 9781474425247

Shows how the interactive, confrontational practice of courtly arts shaped imperial thought in the Middle Ages A probin

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Medieval Georgian Literary Culture and Book Production in the Christian Middle East and Byzantium 9783402110713

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Literary Criticism in Medieval Arabic Islamic Culture: The Making of a Tradition 9781474471497

For the first time this book provides an examination of the impulses that went into the making of literary criticism in

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In the Mirror of Persian Kings: The Origins of Perso-Islamic Courts and Empires in India 1108832318, 9781108832311

For a period of nearly eight hundred years, Perso-Islamic kingship was the source for the dominant social and cultural p

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Cultures of Eschatology: Volume 1: Empires and Scriptural Authorities in Medieval Christian, Islamic and Buddhist Communities. Volume 2: Time, Death and Afterlife in Medieval Christian, Islamic and Buddhist Communities 9783110597745, 9783110690316

Open Access In all religions, in the medieval West as in the East, ideas about the past, the present and the future w

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Harley manuscript geographies: Literary history and the medieval miscellany (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture) 9781526140401, 1526140403

This study applies the methodologies of literary geography to the unique contents of a codex known as London, British Li

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Medieval French Literary Culture Abroad 2020931795, 9780198832454

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The Law Courts of Medieval England 9780429558740

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The Princely Court: Medieval Courts and Culture in North-West Europe, 1270-1380 [Illustrated] 0198205295, 9780198205296

In this fascinating new book, Malcolm Vale sets out to recapture the splendour of the court culture of western Europe in

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