Empire of Magic Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy
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. Drawing on feminist and gender theory, as well as cultural analyses of race, class, and colonialism, this provocative book revises our understanding of the beginnings of the nine hundred-year-old cul ..
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Introduction: In the Beginning Was Romance History as Romance: The Genesis of a Medieval Genre 1. Cannibalism, the First Crusade, and the Genesis of Medieval Romance: Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain Popular Romance: A National Fiction 2. The Romance of England: Richard Coer de Lyon and the Politics of Race, Religion, Sexuality, and Nation Chivalric/Heroic Romance: Defending Elite Men and Bodies 3. Warring Against Modernity: Masculinity and Chivalry in Crisis; or, The Alliterative Morte Arthure's Romance Anatomy of the Crusades Family Romance/Hagiographic Romance: A Matter of Women (and Children) 4. Beauty and the East, a Modern Love Story: Women, Children, and Imagined Communities in The Man of Law's Tale and Its Others Travel Romance/Ethnographic Romance: Mapping the World and Home 5. Eye on the World: Mandeville's Pleasure Zones; or, Cartography, Anthropology, and Medieval Travel Romance