Significant others : aspects of deviance and difference in premodern court cultures /: aspects of deviance and difference in premodern court cultures. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Zita Eva Rohr and Jonathan W. Spangler.
• Editors: Rohr, Zita Eva; Spangler, Jonathan, 1971-
• Contents: Introduction: Significant Others: Aspects of Deviance and Difference in Premodern Court Cultures—Tales of the Unexpected? Zita Eva Rohr and Jonathan Spangler Part 1: (An)Other Middle Ages: Undermining Literary Preconceptions and Habits of Premodern Difference 1. The Other Middle Ages: Cultural Memory and Alterity in Guy Gavriel Kay’s Lions of Al-Rassan Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun 2. Journeying Through (An)Other World: The Role of Magic and Transformational Otherness in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Dalicia Raymond Part 2: Profiting from Difference: Mediterranean Othering and Negotiated Belonging 3. Alter-egos: Mediterranean Agents Negotiating Identity at the Dawn of the Franco-Ottoman Alliance Susan Broomhall 4. The Role of Court Jews as Dhimmis and as Influential Agents of Moroccan Sultans Fatima Rhorchi Part 3: Deviance and Difference: Othering Insiders and Elevating Outsiders at the Court of France 5. ‘Othering’ the Ultimate Insider: The Queen of France Tracy Adams and Christine Adams 6. ‘ Normalising’ Louis XIV’s natural daughters: from bastardy to princeliness (1666-1749) Flavie Leroux 7. Pivot to Piety: A Sexual Scandal at Versailles, 1682, and the Evolution of Perceptions of Male Same-Sex Behaviour at the Court of Louis XIV Jonathan Spangler
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 395; Courts and courtiers -- History -- To 1500; Courts and courtiers -- Social life and customs; Courts and courtiers in literature; Other (Philosophy)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000423044; 9781000422993; 9781003023906
• Related ISBNs: 9780367903459; 9780367903442
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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