Violence, Saracens, and English Identity in Of Arthour and of Merlin

Calkin, Siobhain Bly

doi:10.1353/art.2004.0038

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A rthour and M erlin

Calkin

2017

The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain

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This entry provides a brief overview of the medieval romance Arthour and Merlin (also known as Of Arthour and of Merlin ), which is a Middle English translation of the Old French Estoire de Merlin . The entry summarizes the contents of the Middle English romance, lists its key manuscripts, and introduces readers to the main topics of critical discussion.

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A rthour and M erlin

Calkin

2017

The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain

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Imagined Invasions: Muslim Vikings in Laȝamon’s Brut and Middle English Romances

Ramos

2024

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‘The wickede secte of Saracenys’ – Lexico-semantic means of strengthening the English Christian Self in texts from the Middle English period

Kirner-Ludwig

2021

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This paper focuses on the conceptual category of the Saracen as portrayed in medieval English texts, and the semantic potentials of lexical units used to refer to this ethnic and religious out-group. On the basis of references gathered from broader contexts provided by the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, both the frequency of usage of relevant referring expressions will be looked into. From a historio-pragmatic perspective, it shall be shown that the selected samples present one of many strategies used to strengthen the image of the Christian self by systematically decomposing the image of the ‘misbelieving’ other by means of lexical choice.

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Violence, Saracens, and English Identity in Of Arthour and of Merlin

Abstract: This essay examines the visions of Arthur and England advanced by Saracen-Christian violence in Of Arthour and of Merlin , and considers their pertinence to a fourteenth-century audience.

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A rthour and M erlin

A rthour and M erlin

Imagined Invasions: Muslim Vikings in Laȝamon’s Brut and Middle English Romances

‘The wickede secte of Saracenys’ – Lexico-semantic means of strengthening the English Christian Self in texts from the Middle English period

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