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Item Number: 136050
Title: Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages : Transcultural Perspectives
Author: Stock, Markus (ed)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781442644663
Description: Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. 24cm., hardcover, 281pp. illus.

Contents: The Medieval Alexander: Transcultural Ambivalences (Markus Stock) ; East and West, Cosmopolitan and Imperial in the Roman Alexander (Thomas Hahn) ; Meanings of Nationality in the Medieval Alexander (Emily Reiner) ; Facing the Land of Darkness: Alexander, Islam, and the Quest for the Secrets of God (Christine Chism) ; Diaspora as Empire in the Hebrew Deeds of Alexander (Ma'aseh Alexandros) (Ruth Nisse) ; Hebrew Alexander Romances and Astrological Questions: Alexander, Aristotle, and the Medieval Jewish Audience (Shamma Boyarin) ; The Alexander Romance in Southeast Asia: Wonder, Islam, and the Knowledge of the World (Su Fang Ng) ; Re-Writing the Episode of Alexander and Candace in Medieval Persian Literature: Patterns, Sources, and Motif Transformation (Julia Rubanovich) ; Coptic Miniature Painting in the Arabic Alexander Romance (Faustina Doufikar-Aerts) ; Poet, Protagonist, and the Epic Alexander in Walter of Châtillon's Alexandreis (Sylvia A. Parsons) ; Instrumentum Dei, Exemplum vanitatis, Speculum principis: Interpretations of Alexander in Medieval German Literature. A Survey (Klaus Grubmüller) ; Science and Learning in the Middle Ages: Le Roman d'Alexandre en prose - A Study of Ms Stockholm, Royal Library Vu 20 (Maud Pérez-Simon) ; The Visual Image of Alexander the Great: Transformations in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period (Thomas Noll).

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