Intercultural Transmission in the Medieval Mediterranean

Content: Preface  Acknowledgements  Abbreviations  Introduction  Faith and Spirituality  Thomasine Metamorphosis: Community, Text, and Transmission from Greek to Coptic David W. Kim (University of Edinburgh, UK)  St Michael of Chonai and the Tenacity of Paganism Alan Cadwallader (Australian Catholic University)  Chivalry  Medieval Persian Chivalry and Mysticism Milad Milani (University of Western Sydney, Australia)  From Knight to Chevalier: Chivalry in the chanson de geste Material from Aquitaine to Germany Stephanie L. Hathaway (University of Oxford, UK)  Love and Literature  Humour and Sexuality: Twelfth-Century Troubadours and Medieval Arabic Poetry Jeronimo Mendez (University of Valencia, Spain)  Ladies, Lovers and Lais: A Comparison of Some Byzantine Romances with the Anglo-Norman Guigemar Andrew Stephenson (University of Melbourne, Australia)  Performance and Reception of Greek Tragedy in the Early Medieval Mediterranean Amelia R. Brown (University of Queensland, Australia)  Material Culture  The Urban Language of Early Constantinople: The Changing Roles of the Arts and Architecture in the Formation of the New Capital and the New Consciousness Gordana Korolija Fontana-Giusti (University of Kent, UK)  There and Back Again: Cross-cultural Transmission of Clothing and Clothing Terminology Timothy Dawson (independent scholar)  Index