Boccaccio's Orient: Transgressive Mobilities and Identities across Texts and Faiths in the Mediterranean

This book explores how the medieval "Orient" — the non-Western and non-Christian world — was imagined in texts and images of travel, exile, and cultural encounter across the Mediterranean. Through readings of the Historia Apollonii regis Tyri, Aucassin et Nicolette, Floire et Blancheflor, Le Roman de Silence, La Manekine, Boccaccio’s works, and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, it traces the movement of stories, peoples, and identities across languages, religions, and geographies. At the center o...