Table of Contents
List of Illustrations x
Introduction: The Self, the Other, and Everything in Between: Xenological Phenomenology of the Middle Ages Albrecht Classen xi
Chapter 1 The Saracen and the Martyr: Embracing the Foreign in Hrotsvit's Pelagius Lisa Weston 1
Chapter 2 Foreigner, Foe, and Neighbor: The Religious Cult as a forum for Political Reconciliation Michael Goodich 11
Chapter 3 Hungarians as Vremde in Medieval Germany Alexander Sager 27
Chapter 4 The Face of the Foreigner in Medieval German Courtly Literature David F. Tinsley 45
Chapter 5 Visitors from Another Space: The Medieval Revenantas Foreigner Aline G. Hornaday 71
Chapter 6 The Foreigner Within: The Subject of Abjection in Sir Gowther Michael Uebel 96
Chapter 7 Sir Gowther: Imagining Race in Late Medieval England Jesus Montano 118
Chapter 8 Margins in Middle English Romance: Culture and Characterization in the Awntyrs off Arthurs at the Terne Wathelyne and the Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell Jean E. Jost 133
Chapter 9 Cannibal Diplomacy: Otherness in the Middle English Text Richard Coer De Lion Leona F. Corderv 153
Chapter 10 Anselm Turmeda: The Visionary Humanism of a Muslim Convert and Catalan: Prophet Lowrdes Maria Alvarez 172
Chapter 11 Social Bodies and the Non-Christian 'Other' in the Twelfth Century: John of Salisbury and Peter of Celle Cary J. Nederman 192
Chapter 12 Religious Geography: Designating Jews and Muslims as Foreigners in Medieval England David B. Leshock 202
Chapter 13 Foreigners in Konrad Von Würzburg's Partonopier Und Meliur Albrecht Classen 226
Chapter 14 The Intimate Other: Hans Folz's Dialogue Between "Christian and Jew" Winfried Frey 249
Contributors 268
Index 271
