Medieval empires and the culture of competition literary duels at Islamic and Christian courts
"A probing inquiry into medieval court struggles, this book shows the relationship between intellectual conflict and the geopolitics of empire. It examines the Persian Buyids' takeover of the great Arab caliphate in Iraq, the counter-Crusade under Saladin, and the literature of sovereignty...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh
Edinburgh University Press
2017, [2017]©2017
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| Series: | Edinburgh scholarship online
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | "A probing inquiry into medieval court struggles, this book shows the relationship between intellectual conflict and the geopolitics of empire. It examines the Persian Buyids' takeover of the great Arab caliphate in Iraq, the counter-Crusade under Saladin, and the literature of sovereignty in Spain and Italy at the cusp of the Renaissance. The question of high culture--who best qualified as a poet, the function of race and religion in forming a courtier, what languages to use in which official ceremonies--drove much of medieval writing, and even policy itself. From the last moments of the Abbasid Empire, to the military campaign for Jerusalem, to the rise of Crusades literature in spoken Romance languages, authors and patrons took a competitive stance as a way to assert their place in a shifting imperial landscape."--Back cover |
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| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (viii, 230 pages) |
| ISBN: | 1474425259 1474425240 9781474425223 1474425224 |