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oapen-20.500.12657-223052024-03-22T19:23:30Z Medieval Empires and the Culture of Competition England, Samuel Theology and Religion Christianity Crusades Islam Islamic Empires Medieval History Middle Eastern History thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DS Southern Europe::1DSE Spain Shows how the interactive, confrontational practice of courtly arts shaped imperial thought in the Middle Ages A probing inquiry into medieval court struggles, this book shows the relationship between intellectual conflict and the geopolitics of empire. It examines the Persian Buyids’ takeover of the great Arab caliphate in Iraq, the counter-Crusade under Saladin, and the literature of sovereignty in Spain and Italy at the cusp of the Renaissance. The question of high culture—who best qualified as a poet, the function of race and religion in forming a courtier, what languages to use in which official ceremonies—drove much of medieval writing, and even policy itself. From the last moments of the Abbasid Empire, to the military campaign for Jerusalem, to the rise of Crusades literature in spoken Romance languages, authors and patrons took a competitive stance as a way to assert their place in a shifting imperial landscape. 2020-03-24 03:00:27 2020-04-01T06:48:25Z 2020-04-01T06:48:25Z 2017-10-10 book 1007879 9781474425247;9781474425254 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/22305 eng application/pdf n/a 1007879.pdf Edinburgh University Press 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474425223.001.0001 104421 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474425223.001.0001 2a191404-86cd-479e-afc8-ff2b8d611a94 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781474425247;9781474425254 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 104421 KU Select 2019: HSS Backlist Books Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Shows how the interactive, confrontational practice of courtly arts shaped imperial thought in the Middle Ages
A probing inquiry into medieval court struggles, this book shows the relationship between intellectual conflict and the geopolitics of empire. It examines the Persian Buyids’ takeover of the great Arab caliphate in Iraq, the counter-Crusade under Saladin, and the literature of sovereignty in Spain and Italy at the cusp of the Renaissance. The question of high culture—who best qualified as a poet, the function of race and religion in forming a courtier, what languages to use in which official ceremonies—drove much of medieval writing, and even policy itself. From the last moments of the Abbasid Empire, to the military campaign for Jerusalem, to the rise of Crusades literature in spoken Romance languages, authors and patrons took a competitive stance as a way to assert their place in a shifting imperial landscape.
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