Cosmopolitanism and the Middle Ages (eBook)

Karla Mallette, University of Michigan, USA Sharon Kinoshita, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA Christine Chism, UCLA, USA Marla Segol, University at Buffalo of the State University of New York, USA Shirin Khanmohamadi, San Francisco State University, USA Adnan Husain, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada Margaret Aziza Pappano, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada Karma Lochrie, Indiana University, USA Robert R. Edwards, Pennsylvania State University, USA Jessica L. Wolfe, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

Introduction; Shayne Legassie & John M. Ganim 1. The Metropolis and its Languages: Baghdad and Venice; Karla Mallette 2. Re-Orientations: The Worlding of Marco Polo; Sharon Kinoshita 3. Between Islam and Christendom: Ibn Battuta's Travels in Asia Minor and the North; Christine Chism 4. Medieval Religious Cosmopolitanisms: Truth and Inclusivity in the Literature of Muslim Spain; Marla Segol 5. Worldly Unease in Late Medieval European Travel Reports; Shirin Khanmohamadi 6. The One Kingdom Solution?: Diplomacy, Marriage and Sovereignty in the Third Crusade; Adnan Husain & Margaret Aziza Pappano 7. Inventing Social Conscience: Cosmopolitanism in Piers Plowman; Karma Lochrie 8. Cosmopolitan Imaginaries; Robert R. Edwards 9. Among Other Possible Things: The Cosmopolitanisms of Chaucer's 'Man of Law's Tale'; Shayne Aaron Legassie 10. The Cosmopolitanism of The Adages : The Classical and Christian Legacies of Erasmus' Hermeneutics of Accommodation; Jessica L. Wolfe