ISBN:
9781000423044
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (257 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
395
Keywords:
Courts and courtiers in literature
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Other (Philosophy)
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Courts and courtiers-Social life and customs
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Significant Others: Aspects of Deviance and Difference in Premodern Court Cultures - Tales of the unexpected? -- Part I (An)Other Middle Ages: undermining literary preconceptions and habits of premodern difference -- 1 The other Middle Ages: cultural memory and alterity in Guy Gavriel Kay's The Lions of Al-Rassan -- 2 Journeying through (an)other world: examining the role of magic and transformational otherness in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- Part II Profiting from difference: Mediterranean othering and negotiated belonging -- 3 Alter egos: Mediterranean agents negotiating identity at the dawn of the Franco-Ottoman alliance -- 4 Court Jews and their role as dhimmis and influential agents of Moroccan sultans -- Part III Deviance and difference: othering insiders and elevating outsiders at the court of France -- 5 The "othering" of the ultimate insider: the queen of France -- 6 Normalising Louis XIV's natural daughters: from bastardy to princeliness (1666-1749) -- 7 Pivot to piety: a sexual scandal at Versailles, 1682, and the evolution of perceptions of male same-sex behaviour at the court of Louis XIV -- Index.
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