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The Stranger in Medieval Society F.R.P. Akehurst and Stephanie Cain Van D'Elden, editors |
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Examines the presence of outsiders in medieval Europe. Whether welcome or unwelcome, voluntary or involuntary, strangers appear in every society; they leave their own communities, venture into new environments, confront differences, and often spark changes. The first collection in medieval studies to concentrate on the notion of the stranger, these essays show how outsiders influenced the culture of Europe in the Middle Ages. Among the topics explored are Edward III and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as historical and literary instances of chivalric skill and courage; political conflict in the late French epic Renaut de Montauban; and a group of people who were doubly strangers: some thirty thousand Jews, who after being expelled from France in 1306 returned under an experimental agreement a few years later. "Well-crafted, informative, and well-documented. Read it to extend your horizons in medieval studies." —Parergon Contributors: William Calin, Susan Crane, Maria Dobozy, Edward R. Haymes, William Chester Jordan, Derek Pearsall, William D. Phillips, Jr., Kathryn L. Reyerson, and Janet L. Solberg. F.R.P. Akehurst is professor of French in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Minnesota. Stephanie Cain Van D'Elden is director of graduate studies for the Program in Germanic Philology at the University of Minnesota. 168 pages | 5 7/8 x 9 | 1998 |
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