In this volume, scholars of pre-modern Europe and the Arab world examine the issues of incarceration and slavery. The emphasis rests on religious, literary, philosophical, and historical narratives, buttressed by art-historical evidence, all of which demonstrates the true importance of these painful problems.
In this volume, scholars of pre-modern Europe and the Arab world examine the issues of incarceration and slavery. The emphasis rests on religious, literary, philosophical, and historical narratives, buttressed by art-historical evidence, all of which demonstrates the true importance of these painful problems.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Albrecht Classen is University Distinguished Professor of German studies at the University of Arizona.
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Introduction: Historical, Literary, and Philosophical Reflections on the Phenomena of Imprisonment and Slavery in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period Albrecht Classen Chapter 1: The Transformation of Gehenna: Taking the Biblical Wasteland into the Prison House of Hell Warren Tormey Chapter 2: Insprinc haptbandun, inuar uigandun: Magical (?) Remedies to Escape from Imprisonment in the Germanic Tradition Chiara Benati Chapter 3: Ambivalence in the Poems of the Slave-Knight 'Antarah Ibn Shadd d: An Engagement with Historicism(s) Doaa Omran Chapter 4: Slavery and Anti-Slavery Discourse in the Qur'an: A New-Historicist Reading Christiane Paulus and Magda Hasabelnaby Chapter 5: The Tragic Incarceration and Martyrdom of Al-Hallaj: A Spiritual Passage from Suffering to Glorification Amany El-Sawy Chapter 6: Fruitless Wars and Abominable Crimes: Unfreedom in the Political Rule and Violence of Late Ninth-Century Southern Italy Sarah Whitten Chapter 7: Prisons That Never Were: Ruins, Churches, and Cruelty in Medieval and Modern Iberia (Eighth Through Nineteenth Centuries) Abel Lorenzo-Rodríguez Chapter 8: Tit for Tat: Imprisonment, Slavery, Torture and Other Retribution in William IX's Gab of the Red Cat Fidel Fajardo-Acosta Chapter 9: Thralls in Old Icelandic Literature: Historical Trope or Literary Device? Carlee Arnett Chapter 10: Piracy, Imprisonment, Merchants, and Freedom: Rudolf von Ems's The Good Gerhart (ca. 1220): Mediterranean Perspectives in a Middle High German Context; with Some Reflections on the Topic of Imprisonment in Other Medieval Narratives Albrecht Classen Chapter 11: Don Juan Manuel's Long-Lost Uncle, Don Enrique: Back From Twenty-Five Years in Captivity in Italy Maria Cecilia Ruiz Chapter 12: Maml ks, Qäis, and the Local Population: A Discourse of Resistance, Power, and Liminality in Medieval Egypt Sally Abed Chapter 13: The Education of Male Slaves in the Ottoman Empire and the Restructuring of Ottoman Social Hierarchy Maha Baddar Chapter 14: From Imprisonment to Liberation: Chaucer's Knight's Tale as a Multi-Layered Exploration of a Paradigm for Prison Life Daniel F. Pigg Chapter 15: How to Get Out of Prison: Imprisoned Jews and Their Hafturfehde: Records from the Medieval and Early Modern Holy Roman Empire (Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries) Andreas Lehnertz and Birgit Wiedl Chapter 16: Overcoming Stress in Imprisonment: How Positive Religious Coping and Expressive Writing Helped Fray Luis de León Survive His Inquisitorial Trial (1572 1576) J. Michael Fulton Chapter 17: Health and Community Rescue or Soul Salvation? Incarceration as an Anti-Plague Measure in the Czech Lands in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Filip Hrbek Chapter 18: Shakespeare's Savage Slave Thomas Willard
Introduction: Historical, Literary, and Philosophical Reflections on the Phenomena of Imprisonment and Slavery in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period Albrecht Classen Chapter 1: The Transformation of Gehenna: Taking the Biblical Wasteland into the Prison House of Hell Warren Tormey Chapter 2: Insprinc haptbandun, inuar uigandun: Magical (?) Remedies to Escape from Imprisonment in the Germanic Tradition Chiara Benati Chapter 3: Ambivalence in the Poems of the Slave-Knight 'Antarah Ibn Shadd d: An Engagement with Historicism(s) Doaa Omran Chapter 4: Slavery and Anti-Slavery Discourse in the Qur'an: A New-Historicist Reading Christiane Paulus and Magda Hasabelnaby Chapter 5: The Tragic Incarceration and Martyrdom of Al-Hallaj: A Spiritual Passage from Suffering to Glorification Amany El-Sawy Chapter 6: Fruitless Wars and Abominable Crimes: Unfreedom in the Political Rule and Violence of Late Ninth-Century Southern Italy Sarah Whitten Chapter 7: Prisons That Never Were: Ruins, Churches, and Cruelty in Medieval and Modern Iberia (Eighth Through Nineteenth Centuries) Abel Lorenzo-Rodríguez Chapter 8: Tit for Tat: Imprisonment, Slavery, Torture and Other Retribution in William IX's Gab of the Red Cat Fidel Fajardo-Acosta Chapter 9: Thralls in Old Icelandic Literature: Historical Trope or Literary Device? Carlee Arnett Chapter 10: Piracy, Imprisonment, Merchants, and Freedom: Rudolf von Ems's The Good Gerhart (ca. 1220): Mediterranean Perspectives in a Middle High German Context; with Some Reflections on the Topic of Imprisonment in Other Medieval Narratives Albrecht Classen Chapter 11: Don Juan Manuel's Long-Lost Uncle, Don Enrique: Back From Twenty-Five Years in Captivity in Italy Maria Cecilia Ruiz Chapter 12: Maml ks, Qäis, and the Local Population: A Discourse of Resistance, Power, and Liminality in Medieval Egypt Sally Abed Chapter 13: The Education of Male Slaves in the Ottoman Empire and the Restructuring of Ottoman Social Hierarchy Maha Baddar Chapter 14: From Imprisonment to Liberation: Chaucer's Knight's Tale as a Multi-Layered Exploration of a Paradigm for Prison Life Daniel F. Pigg Chapter 15: How to Get Out of Prison: Imprisoned Jews and Their Hafturfehde: Records from the Medieval and Early Modern Holy Roman Empire (Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries) Andreas Lehnertz and Birgit Wiedl Chapter 16: Overcoming Stress in Imprisonment: How Positive Religious Coping and Expressive Writing Helped Fray Luis de León Survive His Inquisitorial Trial (1572 1576) J. Michael Fulton Chapter 17: Health and Community Rescue or Soul Salvation? Incarceration as an Anti-Plague Measure in the Czech Lands in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Filip Hrbek Chapter 18: Shakespeare's Savage Slave Thomas Willard
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