Languages of love and hate : conflict, communication, and identity in the medieval Mediterranean

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Label

Languages of love and hate : conflict, communication, and identity in the medieval Mediterranean

Title remainder

conflict, communication, and identity in the medieval Mediterranean

Statement of responsibility

edited by Sarah Lambert and Helen Nicholson

Contributor

• Lambert, Sarah
• Nicholson, Helen J., 1960-

Editor

• Lambert, Sarah
• Nicholson, Helen J., 1960-

Subject

• Byzantine Empire -- Foreign relations -- 1081-1453
• Christianity and other religions -- Mediterranean Region -- To 1500
• Crusades in literature
• Culture conflict -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 1500
• Culture conflict in literature
• Intercultural communication -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 1500
• Islam -- Relations | Christianity
• Judaism -- Relations | Christianity
• Language and culture -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 1500
• Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism

Language

• eng
• grc
• lat
• grc
• lat
• eng

Summary

This book probes the nature of the clash of cultures as a process of identification and classification of the unknown. 'There is no world of thought that is not a world of language and one sees of the world only what is provided for by language' (Walter Benjamin, 1936). In the medieval Mediterranean, cultural groups were frequently labelled, fixed, and identified by language, and these linguistic groupings were consistently in states of conflict and/or exchange. This collection explores various expressions of cultural clash and exchange, and examines some of the ways in which language was used to express difference, to mark out cultural difference, and to further label those cultures--often as alien and inferior, but sometimes as different and worthy of respect. This theme unites scholars coming from a range of perspectives and engaging with a whole series of cultural interchanges and conflicts. It brings together work on a wide range of peoples--Latins, Byzantines, Muslims, and Jews--commenting on and writing about each other, as well as a wide variety of different genres, from theology to farce. This volume seeks to offer a broad and wide-ranging approach to understanding the world at the time of the crusades through the words of participants and observers

Member of

• International medieval research (Series), 15

Cataloging source

UKMGB

Dewey number

302.2091822

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Language note

In English; occasional phrases in Ancient Greek and Latin with English translations

LC call number

P94.65.M4

LC item number

L25 2012

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

International medieval research

Series volume

v. 15