Whitening and Demonizing the Saracen Woman in Medieval French Epic
by
Jacqueline de Weever
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Exploring how the depiction of otherness or alterity during the Middle Ages became problematic in the aesthetics of the Romance epics written during the centuries of the Crusades, this book offers a vital contribution to the growing interest in the way foreign women are presented in the texts of the...