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Can I read Saracens and the Making of English Identity : The Auchinleck Manuscript on EtoBox?
Saracens and the Making of English Identity : The Auchinleck Manuscript by Bly Calkin, Siobhain. is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is Saracens and the Making of English Identity : The Auchinleck Manuscript about?
This book explores the ways in which discourses of religious, racial, and national identity blur and engage each other in the medieval West. Specifically, the book studies depictions of Muslims in England during the 1330s and argues that these depictions, although historically inaccurate, served to enhance and advance assertions of English national identity at this time. The book examines Saracen characters in a manuscript renowned for the variety of its texts, and discusses hagiographic legends
Who reads Saracens and the Making of English Identity : The Auchinleck Manuscript?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Bly Calkin, Siobhain.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis (CAM)
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780415972413
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Romance, Islam
- Updated
- 2026-03-25