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Cover 1 Title page 4 Copyright page 5 Contents 6 Acknowledgments 8 List of Illustrations 10 The Medieval Alexander: Transcultural Ambivalences 14 East and West, Cosmopolitan and Imperial in the Roman Alexander 24 Meanings of Nationality in the Medieval Alexander Tradition 41 Facing the Land of Darkness: Alexander, Islam, and the Quest for the Secrets of God 62 Diaspora as Empire in the Hebrew Deeds of Alexander (Ma’aseh Alexandros) 87 Hebrew Alexander Romances and Astrological Questions: Alexander, Aristotle, and the Medieval Jewish Audience 99 The Alexander Romance in Southeast Asia: Wonder, Islam, and Knowledge of the World 115 Re-writing the Episode of Alexander and Candace in Medieval Persian Literature: Patterns, Sources, and Motif Transformation 134 Coptic Miniature Painting in the Arabic Alexander Romance 164 Poet, Protagonist, and the Epic Alexander in Walter of Châtillon’s Alexandreis 188 Instrumentum Dei, Exemplum vanitatis, Speculum principis. Interpretations of Alexander in Medieval German Literature: A Survey 211 Science and Learning in the Middle Ages: Le Roman d’Alexandre en prose – A Study of Ms Stockholm, Royal Library Vu 20 228 The Visual Image of Alexander the Gr

Author

Stock, Markus

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EN