Medieval Andalusian Courtly Culture in the Mediterranean: Hadîth Bayâd wa Riyâd (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures)

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Medieval Andalusian Courtly Culture in the Mediterranean: Hadîth Bayâd wa Riyâd (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures)

Book: Paperback 28 - 12 - 2006

Product ID: 4419061

Condition: New
Publisher : Routledge

Language : English

Paperback : 226 Pages

ISBN-10 : 0415595924

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About the Author Cynthia Robinson is the Mary Donlon Alger Professor of Medieval and Islamic Art and Cornell University. Her short fiction has been published or is forthcoming in such journals as The Arkansas Review, The Missouri Review, The New Southerner, The Louisville Review, Epoch and Stone Canoe. Product Description Medieval Andalusian Courtly Culture discusses the unicum manuscript of the Hadîth Bayâd wa Riyâd, the only illustrated manuscript known to have survived for more than eight centuries of Muslim and Arabic-speaking presence in present-day Spain. The manuscript is of paramount importance as it contains the only known surviving version, both in terms of text and of image, of the love story of Bayâd wa Riyâd. This study will place this manuscript within the context of late medieval Mediterranean courtly culture, offering: an annotated translation into English of the entire text reproductions of its images an analysis of both text and images in a series of progressively broader contexts including that of al-Andalus(Arabic-speaking); of "reconquista" Iberia; and the larger Mediterranean world. Cynthia Robinson broadens understanding of the Mediterranean region during the Middle Ages, making this text an invaluable resource for scholars with interests in Medieval Spain, art and Mediterranean courtly culture. Review 'Robinson's study represents a crucial contribution to the discussion of narrative traditions in the medieval Mediterranean' - Karla Mallette, Fabula 50 (2009)

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