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"Why is Cleopatra, a descendent of Alexander the Great, a Ptolemy from a Greek-Macedonian family, in popular imagination an Oriental woman? True, she assumed some aspects of pharaonic imagery in order to rule Egypt, but her Orientalism mostly derives from ancient (Roman) and mod…
Desert passions: Orientalism and romance novels
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Medieval welsh perceptions of the Orient
by Poppe, Erich, Petrovskaia, Natalia I.
fromCursor Mundi
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Type: Book
"This book ... proposes the identification of three distinct conceptions of the Orient in medieval sources: Biblical, classical and contemporary. Welsh textual material from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries is used as a case-study to develop and illustrate this theory". - co…