Book chapter
Complex Identities: Selves and Others
The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English
Oxford Handbooks of Literature, Oxford University Press
04/15/2010
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199229123.013.0023
Abstract
This article examines the complexities of medieval identity formation by surveying the depiction of Jews and Saracens in English texts produced throughout the medieval period from the time of Bede to the second half of the fifteenth century. It shows that there are many ways to approach productively the question of identity and medieval literature, and it is futile to posit any claims about a primary other during the period and suggests that the relationships between the selves and others imagined by medieval texts are far too multiple, fraught, and unstable. It explains how indispensable constructions of others are to notions of selfhood in the medieval West.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Complex Identities: Selves and Others
- Creators
- Kathy Lavezzo - University of Iowa
- Contributors
- Greg Walker (Editor) - University of EdinburghElaine Treharne (Editor) - English, Florida State University
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Series
- Oxford Handbooks of Literature
- DOI
- 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199229123.013.0023
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/15/2010
- Academic Unit
- English
- Record Identifier
- 9984418877902771
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