The Mongols of Middle English Literature.
- Author / Editor
- Norako, Leila K.
The Mongols of Middle English Literature.
- Published
- Valerie B. Johnson and Kara L. McShane, eds. Negotiating Boundaries in Medieval Literature and Culture: Essays on Marginality, Difference, and Reading Practices in Honor of Thomas Hahn (Boston: De Gruyter; Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute, 2022), pp. 49-76.
- Description
- Explores how SqT and "The Book of John Mandeville" “traffic in fantasies of cultural, religious, and racial annihilation . . . in a quieter, more subtextual way than that seen in other works of crusades-inspired literature" Argues that the Squire poses "conquest-via-effacement" in his tale and, comparing the tale with Mandeville and other works, observes how it endeavors to absorb Mongols into "Latin Christendom."
- Alternative Title
- Negotiating Boundaries in Medieval Literature and Culture
- Chaucer Subjects
- Squire and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations