Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages : transcultural perspectives /
In the Middle Ages, the life story of Alexander the Great was a well-traveled tale. Known in numerous versions, many of them derived from the ancient Greek Alexander Romance, it was told and re-told throughout Europe, India, the Middle East and central Asia. The essays collected in 'Alexander t...
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- The medieval Alexander: transcultural ambivalences / Markus Stock
- East and West, cosmopolitan and imperial in the Roman Alexander / Thomas Hahn
- Meanings of nationality in the medieval Alexander tradition / Emily Reiner
- Facing the land of darkness: Alexander, Islam, and the quest for the secrets of God / Christine Chism
- Diaspora as empire in the Hebrew Deeds of Alexander (Ma'aseh Alexandros) / Ruth Nisse
- Hebrew Alexander romance and astrological questions: Alexander, Aristotle, and the medieval Jewish audience / Shamma Boyarin
- The Alexander Romance in Southeast Asia: wonder, Islam, and knowledge of the world / Su Fang Ng
- Re-writing the episode of Alexander and Candace in medieval Persian literatuer: patterns, sources, and motif transformation / Julia Rubanovich
- Coptic miniature painting in the Arabic Alexander Romance / Faustina Doufikar-Aerts
- Poet, protagonist, and the epic Alexander in Walter of Châtillon's Alexandreis / Sylvia A. Parsons
- Instrumentum dei, exemplum vanitatis, speculum principis. Interpretations of Alexander in medieval German literature: a survey / Klaus Grubmüller
- Science and learning in the Middle Ages: Le Roman d'Alexandre en prose - a study of Ms Stockholm, Royal Library Vu 20 / Maud Pérez-Simon
- The visual image of Alexander the Great: transformations from the Middle Ages to the early modern period / Thomas Noll.