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- catalog abstract ""Empire of Magic offers a genesis and genealogy for medieval romance and the King Arthur legend through the history of Europe's encounters with the East in crusades, travel, missionizing, and empire formation. It also produces definitions of "race" and "nation" for the medieval period and posits that the Middle Ages and medieval fantasies of race and religion have recently returned." "Empire of Magic is expansive in scope, spanning the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries, and detailed in coverage, examining various types of romance - historical, national, popular, chivalric, family, and travel romances, among others - to see how cultural fantasy responds to changing crises, pressures, and demands in a number of different ways. Boldy controversial, theoretically sophisticated, and historically rooted, Empire of Magic is a restaging of the role romance played in the culture of a period and world in ways that suggest how cultural fantasy still functions for us today."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12878512.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""Empire of Magic offers a genesis and genealogy for medieval romance and the King Arthur legend through the history of Europe's encounters with the East in crusades, travel, missionizing, and empire formation. It also produces definitions of "race" and "nation" for the medieval period and posits that the Middle Ages and medieval fantasies of race and religion have recently returned." "Empire of Magic is expansive in scope, spanning the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries, and detailed in coverage, examining various types of romance - historical, national, popular, chivalric, family, and travel romances, among others - to see how cultural fantasy responds to changing crises, pressures, and demands in a number of different ways. Boldy controversial, theoretically sophisticated, and historically rooted, Empire of Magic is a restaging of the role romance played in the culture of a period and world in ways that suggest how cultural fantasy still functions for us today."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [467]-498) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: In the beginning was romance ... -- Cannibalism, the First Crusade, and the genesis of medieval romance: Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the kings of Britain -- The romance of England: Richard Coer de Lyon and the politics of race, religion, sexuality, and nation -- Warring against modernity: masculinity and chivalry in crisis; or, the alliterative Morte Arthure's romance anatomy of the Crusades -- Beauty and the East, a modern love story: women, children, and imagined communities in The man of law's tale and its others -- Eye on the world: Mandeville's pleasure zones; or, cartography, anthropology, and medieval travel romance.".
- catalog extent "xii, 521 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0231125267 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0231125275 (paper : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Columbia University Press,".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "820.9/001 21".
- catalog subject "Civilization, Medieval, in literature.".
- catalog subject "Crusades in literature.".
- catalog subject "Culture in literature.".
- catalog subject "English literature Middle English, 1100-1500 History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Imperialism in literature.".
- catalog subject "Literature and society England History To 1500.".
- catalog subject "Magic in literature.".
- catalog subject "PR321 .H46 2003".
- catalog subject "Politics and literature England History To 1500.".
- catalog subject "Politics and literature Great Britain History To 1500.".
- catalog subject "Romances, English History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: In the beginning was romance ... -- Cannibalism, the First Crusade, and the genesis of medieval romance: Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the kings of Britain -- The romance of England: Richard Coer de Lyon and the politics of race, religion, sexuality, and nation -- Warring against modernity: masculinity and chivalry in crisis; or, the alliterative Morte Arthure's romance anatomy of the Crusades -- Beauty and the East, a modern love story: women, children, and imagined communities in The man of law's tale and its others -- Eye on the world: Mandeville's pleasure zones; or, cartography, anthropology, and medieval travel romance.".
- catalog title "Empire of magic : medieval romance and the politics of cultural fantasy / Geraldine Heng.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".