Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Cross-Cultural Encounters

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Introduction....Pages 1-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Andalusian Iberias: From Spanish to Iberian Literature....Pages 21-35
Using Feminist Pedagogy to Explore Connectivity in the Medieval Mediterranean....Pages 37-51
A Journey through the Silk Road in a Cosmopolitan Classroom....Pages 53-70
Teaching English Travel Writing from 1500 to the Present....Pages 71-85
Stranger Than Fiction: Early Modern Travel Narratives and the Antiracist Classroom....Pages 87-101
Different Shakespeares: Thinking Globally in an Early Modern Literature Course....Pages 103-119
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
The Moor of America: Approaching the Crisis of Race and Religion in the Renaissance and the Twenty-First Century....Pages 123-140
“Real” Bodies? Race, Corporality, and Contradiction in The Arabian Nights and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Il Fiore Delle Mille E Una Notte (1974)....Pages 141-158
Encountering Saracens in Italian Chivalric Epic and Folk Performance Traditions....Pages 159-178
Beowulf as Hero of Empire....Pages 179-196
Front Matter....Pages 197-197
Resurrecting Callimachus: Pop Music, Puppets, and the Necessity of Performance in Teaching Medieval Drama....Pages 199-213
Teaching Chaucer through Convergence Culture: The New Media Middle Ages as Cross-Cultural Encounter....Pages 215-228
Back Matter....Pages 229-253