About this Item
Hans-Werner Goetz, Ian N. Wood (eds). Pages: 478 p. Illustrations:25 b/w, 9 col., 4 maps b/w, 4 maps. Language(s):English. Hardback. Brepols, Publication Year:2022 -- SUMMARY Although Otherness is an extremely common phenomenon in every society, related research is still at its beginnings. Otherness in the Middle Ages is a versatile and complex theme that covers a great number of different aspects, facets, and approaches: from non-human monsters and cultural strangers from remote places up to foreigners from another country or another town; it can refer to ethnic, cultural, political, social, sexual, or religious Otherness , inside or outside one s own community. In any case, however, Otherness is a subjective phenomenon depending on personal views and ascriptions, an issue of imagination and experience rather than reality . There is neither one single model of alterity nor is Otherness a stable phenomenon, but it changes over time and according to the cultural context. All this calls for methodological reflection and needs thorough investigation. The methodological introduction and the 18 contributions of this volume demonstrate the great diversity of the theme and its different manifestations and perspectives. They tackle the problem from distinct angles and disciplines (history, art history, archaeology, literary history, and philology) in a wide chronological and thematic frame, using different methodological approaches, dealing with different areas (from Northern and Southern Europe to Byzantium and India), perspectives (including law, social order, the past, a sea), and diverse kinds of sources. They examine all kinds of Otherness mentioned above, highlight demarcation and rejection, aversion or acceptance, assimilation and integration, thus relativizing a strict dichotomy between the Self and the Other or between inside and outside. This volume is so far the most comprehensive attempt to tackle the huge problem of Otherness in the Middle Ages. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: The Many Facets and Methodological Problems of Otherness HANS-WERNER GOETZ AND IAN WOOD The Mediterranean Other and the Other Mediterranean: Perspectives of Alterity in Medieval Studies NIKOLAS JASPERT Strangers in the House of Israel: Confronting the Problems of Inner Diversity in Jewish Communal Ordinances at the End of the Middle Ages MARTIN BORİSEK Between a Rock and a Hard Place? South-Italian Portrayals of Franks and Byzantines in the Ninth Century CLEMENS GANTNER The Construction of Allegiance and Exclusion in Erchempert s Historia Langobardorum Beneventanorum SOPHIE GRUBER Other Genders, Other Sexualities: Crises of Identity in Medieval French Ovidian Narratives SYLVIA HUOT The Jew as the Other in Word and Deed ASTRID KHOO Layers of Otherness : Appearance Defining and Disguising Otherness in Byzantine Monasticism NIKE KOUTRAKOU The Others from Within: Herders between Rural Communities and Venetian Governance on Late Medieval Korčula FABIAN KÜMMELER Assimilating Otherness in Early Islam EDUARDO MANZANO MORENO The Familiar Stranger: Biblical Perception and Depiction of Muslims in Christian Chronicles of the Iberian Peninsula, c.900 PATRICK S. MARSCHNER Not the Other : Barbarians and the End of the Western Roman Empire RALPH W. MATHISEN How Other Was the Viking Otherworld? MEGHAN MATTSSON MCGINNIS Otherness as an Ideal: The Tradition of the Virtuous Indians YU ONUMA Distinctive Signs and Otherness: The Depiction of Prophets, in the Late Fourteenth Century in the Cathedral of Toledo (Spain) MARIA PORTMANN It Was the Law Back Then : The Viking Age as the Other in Medieval Scandinavian Legal Thought ROLAND SCHEEL The Other- Part of the World for Late Medieval Latin Christendom FELICITAS SCHMIEDER The Muslim Archother and the Royal Other: Aristocratic Notions of Otherness in Fourteenth-Century Portugal TIAGO JOÃO QUEIMADA E SILVA Otherness Within? The Sámi in Medieval Scandinavian Law MIRIAM TVEIT Gener.
Seller Inventory # ca645
Contact seller
Report this item
