Ecstatic Transformation : On the Uses of Alterity in the Middle Ages /
This book studies the way in which medieval ways of knowing the Oriental 'other' were constructed around the idea of a utopic East as located in the legend and Letter of Prester John (c. 1160). The birth of utopic thinking, it argues, is tied to an understanding of alterity having as much...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2005.
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| Series: | New Middle Ages.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
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