Exchanges in Exoticism: Cross-Cultural Marriage and the Making of the Mediterranean in Old French Romance

by Megan Moore

Charting important new territory within medieval gender studies, Megan Moore explores the vital role that women played in transmitting knowledge and empire within Mediterranean cross-cultural marriages. Whereas cross-cultural exchange has typically been understood through the lens of male-centered translation work, this study, which is grounded in the relations between the west and Byzantium, examines cross-cultural marriage as a medium of literary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442644699
• ISBN13: 9781442644694
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"