Sheba's Daughters: Whitening and Demonizing the Saracen Woman in Medieval French Epic

by Jacqueline de Weever

Book Overview

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 Latin West and will be of consuming interest to students in women's studies, cultural studies, and medieval literature.The texts considered are written...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138879509
• ISBN13: 9781138879508
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 291 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"