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This dissertation offers a genesis for medieval Grail romances as a challenge to the conception of piety promulgated by the reformed clergy during the crusades. It combines literary and historical analyses to ask why Arthurian writers, who produced for and represented secular cu…

Michael Muhammad Knight is known primarily as a provocative author concerned with the North American Islamic community. Knight gained attention with his 2004 novel, The Taqwacores, in which he detailed the lives of Islamic punk rockers, the eponymous taqwacores, as they navigate…

This thesis is a contribution to the study of late medieval English and French martial aristocratic culture. It uses transitional plate armor – a hybrid assemblage of iron, steel, leather, and cotton – and its representation as a point of analytical entry to understand what form…