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This volume presents evidence of the extent and effects of intercultural contacts across Europe and the Mediterranean rim, opening up a new understanding of early medieval civilisation and its continuing influence in both Western and Eastern cultures today. From the perspectives of textual transmission, cultural memory, religion, art and cultural traditions, this work explores the central question of how ideas travelled in the medieval world, challenging the conventional notion of insular communities in the Middle Ages. Despite the schism between East and West that took hold after the thirteenth century this volume reveals a rich and extensive cultural exchange and demonstrates that transmission of ideas and culture across borders began much earlier than the Crusades. It contributes to new perspectives on medieval cities, Christian Europe's history with the Byzantine and Islamic Mediterranean, the landscape of power and the power-plays of the medieval Church, and the way in which cross-cultural transmission affected all of these areas.
Contents
Foreword; Part I: Faith and Spirituality; 1. Thomasine Metamorphosis: Community, Text and Transmission from Greek to Coptic - Kim; 2. St Michael of Chonai and the Tenacity of Paganism - Cadwallader; 3. Medieval Persian Chivalry and Mysticism - Milani; Part II: Love and Chivalry; 4. Spiritual Chivalry in the European Court - Hathaway; 5. Humour and Sexuality - Mendez; 6. Ladies, Lovers and Lais - Stephenson; Part III: Edifice and Artifice; 7. The Urban Language of Constantinople - Fontana-Giusti; 8. Performance and Reception of Greek Tragedy in the Early Medieval Mediterranean - Brown; 9. There and Back Again: A Case Study in Circular Cross-cultural Transmission - Dawson; Conclusions; Bibliography.
