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Cosmopolitanism and the Middle Ages

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Author(s): John M. Ganim, Shayne Aaron Legassie (eds.)
Series: The New Middle Ages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2013

Language: English
Tags: History of Medieval Europe; Medieval Literature; Political Theory; Political Philosophy; Literary Theory; World History, Global and Transnational History

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-19
The Metropolis and Its Languages: Baghdad and Venice....Pages 21-37
Reorientations: The Worlding of Marco Polo....Pages 39-57
Between Islam and Christendom: Ibn Battuta’s Travels in Asia Minor and the North....Pages 59-78
Medieval Religious Cosmopolitanisms: Truth and Inclusivity in the Literature of Muslim Spain....Pages 79-103
Worldly Unease in Late Medieval European Travel Reports....Pages 105-120
The One Kingdom Solution?: Diplomacy, Marriage, and Sovereignty in the Third Crusade....Pages 121-140
Inventing Social Conscience: Cosmopolitanism in Piers Plowman ....Pages 141-161
Cosmopolitan Imaginaries....Pages 163-180
Among Other Possible Things: The Cosmopolitanisms of Chaucer’s “Man of Law’s Tale”....Pages 181-205
The Cosmopolitanism of The Adages: The Classical and Christian Legacies of Erasmus’ Hermeneutics of Accommodation....Pages 207-230
Back Matter....Pages 231-239