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- Title
The Pathogenesis of Medieval History.
- Authors
Uebel, Michael
- Abstract
Discusses the fetishization of the orient in the Middle Ages as exemplified by a range of texts. Utopic nature of the text 'Historiae sui temporis,' by Rodolfus Glaber and the legend of Prester John's kingdom in India; Reanimation of the dead to objectify the gulf between self and other, past and future and fantasy and the everyday; Glaber's recording of the horrors of the millennium in his pre-1030 writings.
- Subjects
MEDIEVAL literature; ORIENTALISM in literature; GLABER, Rodulfus, ca. 985-ca. 1046; PRESTER John (Legendary character); CRITICISM
- Publication
Texas Studies in Literature & Language, 2002, Vol 44, Issue 1, p47
- ISSN
0040-4691
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/tsl.2002.0008