Medieval Boundaries: Rethinking Difference in Old French Literature 0812202481, 9780812202489

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Table of contents :
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: Epic Revisions
1: "Pagans are Wrong and Christians are Right": From Parias to Crusade in the Chanson De Roland
2: The Politics of Courtly Love: La Prise D' Orange and the Conversion of the Saracen Queen
Part II: Romances of Assimilation
3: "In The Beginning Was the Road": Floire et Blancheflor in the Medieval Mediterranean
4: Colonial Possessions: Wales and the Anglo-Norman Imaginary in the Lais of Marie de France
Part III: Crisis and Change in the Thirteenth Century
5: Brave New Worlds: Robert de Clari's La Conquête de Constantinople
6: The Romance of Miscegenation: Negotiating Identities in la Fille du Comte de Pontieu
7: Uncivil Wars: Imagining Community in la Chanson de la Croisade Albigeoise
Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments

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Medieval Boundaries

THE MIDDLE AGES SERIES Ruth Mazo Karras, Series Editor Edward Peters, Founding Editor

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