Strangers at the Gate! Multidisciplinary Explorations of Communities, Borders, and Othering in Medieval Western Europe

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-42549-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 6400 g

Reihe: Explorations in Medieval Culture

This volume showcases a range of different approaches to strangers and strangeness across medieval western Europe. It focuses on how communities responded to the arrival of strangers and to different ways in which individuals and groups were constructed as estranged. Further, it reflects on different forms of border-crossing, from lived experience to literary imagination and from specific journeys in precise contexts to the conceptualisation of the shift from life to death. In the range of its contributions – applying linguistic, historical, archaeological, architectural, archival, literary, and theological analyses – it seeks to bring together disciplines and geographical areas of study that are too often strangers to one another in medieval studies.

Contributors are Sherif Abdelkarim, Anna Adamska, Adrien Carbonnet, Wim De Clercq, Florian Dolberg, Joshua S. Easterling, Susan Irvine, Marco Mostert, Richard North, James Plumtree, Euan McCartney Robson, Beatrice Saletti, Simon C. Thomson and Gerben Verbrugghe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Thomson, Simon C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Fearing, Facing, and Being a Stranger

S.C. Thomson

1 Studying Communication in the Margins of Medieval Society

Marco Mostert

2 HITting on Migration in the Murky Middle Ages: Advocating an Interdisciplinary Approach

A Case Study in Old English/Old Norse Language Contact

Florian Dolberg

3 The Language of the Mute Strangers: The Ambivalent Position of the German Language in the Late Medieval Polish Kingdom

Anna Adamska

4 How Foreigners Entered Italian Cities in the Fifteenth Century: The Case of Bologna

Beatrice Saletti

5 Little Flanders Beyond Wales: The Historical Context of Flemish Settlement Landscapes in South Pembrokeshire

Gerben Verbrugghe and Wim De Clercq

6 Repopulating the City with Strangers: The Forced Colonization of Arras by the King of France Louis XI (1479–1484)

Adrien Carbonnet

7 Strangers in the Cathedral: Place, Landscape and Nostalgia in Symeon of Durham’s Libellus de Exordio

Euan McCartney Robson

8 Resident Stranger: Sæmundr in the Ashkenaz

Richard North

9 The Perils of Medieval Bridges: Gregory, Grendel and Gawain

Susan Irvine

10 Strange Confessions: Salvation and Prayers for the Dead in Caesarius of Heisterbach’s Dialogue on Miracles

Joshua S. Easterling

11 Placing the Green Children of Woolpit

James Plumtree

12 Afterword

Sherif Abdelkarim

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

S.C. Thomson, Ph.D. (2017), is Senior Lecturer in Medieval English Language and Literature at Heinrich-Heine-Universität in Düsseldorf. He has published on Old English manuscripts and poetry, on stories and imagery in the English reign of Cnut, and on the medievalist novel The Mere Wife, and has edited volumes on sensory perception and on storytelling in medieval western Europe.