This project begins by examining current trends in the study of medieval literature, particularly in the area of medieval literature dealing with religious conflict. Literary review demonstrates that since the late 20th century, critical examination of medieval literature has be…
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Dante Alighieri’s references to the Islamic world are analyzed in order to determine how he perceived the Muslim Other through his medieval Christian lens, and how this shaped both his religious conception of salvation, as well as his political dream for a universal monarchy. Ed…
This dissertation explores various characteristics that define the monstrous and the heroic — both on their own and in conjunction with each other — in three representative texts of the Middle Ages, the Old English Beowulf (manuscript c.1000), the Persian epic, The Shahnameh (c.…
Relics and the Eucharist, powerful physical links between the divine and the human, sit at the heart of narratives about twelfth-century English religious conflicts. These conflicts centered around internal strife between Jews and Christians, prior to the Jews' expulsion from En…
The success of the First Crusade by the Christian armies caught the interest and arrested the imagination of contemporaries, stimulating the production of a large number of historical narratives. Four eyewitness accounts, as well as letters written by the crusaders to the West, …
In this dissertation, I describe social, economic and political relations between Jews and Christians in medieval Europe before presenting the intellectual and religious context of Jewish life in Christian Spain. The purpose of this endeavor is to provide the framework for analy…
This project examines the Middle English Charlemagne Romances, a scattered group of nine metrical romances from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in the sociocultural context of late medieval England's growing perception of nationhood. I argue that these romances employ the…
Despite general consensus among scholars that race in the West is an early modern phenomenon that dates to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, late medieval English texts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries expend no small amount of effort depicting the differences b…
Research on the Ottomans during the Renaissance and early modern periods has primarily fallen into a dichotomy of fear and fascination—that is, either in scholarship that centers on the prejudice with which the Spanish viewed the East Mediterranean Orient, or, less often, critic…
This study demonstrates the essential connection between literature and history by examining the way selected saints' lives were read and rewritten in Latin and Old French from the eleventh to thirteenth centuries. Building on the concept of the horizon of expectations developed…
The Currant is framed as a “found manuscript,” one particular instantiation in a text network “originating” in the Aljamiado manuscript tradition. Aljamiado was a 16th and 17th century textual code whereby a romance language was transliterated into Arabic script, practiced as a …
Dragons, Fairies, and Time: Imagining the Past in Medieval Welsh, Persian, and French Narratives explores how speculative modes informed imaginative writing about the past in three medieval literary ecosystems. It begins by positing that the modern category of speculative fictio…
İbn Mihrân en-Nîsâbûrî IV/X. asırda Nîşâbûr’da yaşamış önemli ilim adamlarından biridir. Nîşâbûr’da başladığı ilim hayatına İslâm dünyasının ilmî ve kültürel merkezlerinden olan Bağdat, Dımaşk, Kûfe ve Semerkand’a yolculuklar yaparak devam ettirmiştir. Kur’an İlimleri, Hadis, Fı…
Bu çalışmada Fahreddîn-i Irâkî’nin (ö. 688/1289) Lemeât isimli eseri ile İbnü’l-Arabî’nin (ö. 638/1240) Istılâhâtu’s-sûfiyye’sinin Seyyid Mehmed Hâkim Efendi tarafından yapılan tercümeleri dil ve içerik açısından incelenmiştir. XVIII. yüzyıl Türk edebiyatının çok yönlü bir temsi…
Bûsîrî’nin Kasîde-i Bürde’si İslam edebiyatında üzerinde en çok çalışma yapılan eserler arasındadır. Türk edebiyatında da oldukça önemli bir yere sahip olan bu kaside üzerinde pek çok çalışma bulunmaktadır. Çalışmaya konu olan yazma, Bûsîrî’ye ait Kasîde-i Bürde’nin Doğu Türkçes…
Medieval Russian literature depicts the Mongols as ungodly and destructive, and it emphasizes the Russians as antithetical to their barbaric conquerors. Traditionalists have used this literature to discredit Mongol rule in Russia and blame the Mongols for Russia’s “backwardness”…
Despite Geoffrey Chaucer's longstanding reputation as the English nation's first writer, his relation to the problem of nationhood has just begun to receive extensive critical attention. This dissertation clarifies the nature of Chaucer's national imagination by drawing on recen…
The Sephardic ballad collection contains ballads of varying themes, many of which have been forgotten in Spain, where they were originally sung by Jews, Christians, and Muslims. A popular theme within this genre is that of women committing adultery and transgressions which in ma…
This dissertation, "In another kynde": Modes of Recognition in Late Medieval English Literature, seeks to revive and broaden our interest in the topos of recognition and suggest its cultural importance. Scenes of recognition play an important role in narratives that explore iden…