Toleration and Tolerance in Medieval European Literature

Author:   Albrecht Classen
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780367787097


Pages:   330
Publication Date:   31 March 2021
Format:   Paperback
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Toleration and Tolerance in Medieval European Literature aims to examine and unearth the critical investigations of toleration and tolerance presented in literary texts of the Middle Ages. In contrast to previous approaches, this volume identifies new methods of interpreting conventional classifications of toleration and tolerance through the emergence of multi-level voices in literary, religious, and philosophical discourses of authorities in medieval literature. Accordingly, this volume identifies two separate definitions of toleration and tolerance, the former as a representative of a majority group accepts a member of the minority group but still holds firmly to the believe that s/he is right and the other entirely wrong, and tolerance meaning that all faiths, convictions, and ideologies are treated equally, and the majority speaker is ready to accept that potentially his/her position is wrong. Applying these distinct differences in the critical investigation of interaction and representation in context, this book offers new insight into the tolerant attitudes portrayed in medieval literature of which regularly appealed, influenced and shaped popular opinions of the period.

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Author:   Albrecht Classen
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367787097


ISBN 10:   0367787091
Pages:   330
Publication Date:   31 March 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents: History of Toleration and Tolerance: I: Toleration and Tolerance: An Introduction Historical, Religious, and Literary Reflections II: History and Theory of Toleration and Tolerance: Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Early Modern Ages: Early Voices, Quiet and yet of Great Strength III: Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Encounters with the Others Emergence of Toleration and Tolerance in the Early Thirteenth Century? IV: A Brief Moment of Truce and Welcome: Friendship Between the Muslim and the Christian in Rudolf von Ems’s Der guote Gêrhart V: Reaching out to the Other Side in Fourteenth-Century Italian Literature: Literary Efforts to Establish Friendship and Tolerant Relationships in Boccaccio’s Decameron VI: The Foreign World and the Foreign Religion in Medieval Literature Experiments in and Strategies with Toleration A Pan-European Perspective on the ‘Good Heathen’ VII: Philosophical and Religious Outreaches to the Other Faiths from the High to the Late Middle Ages: Peter Abelard, Ramon Llull, and Nicholas of Cusa, VIII: Tolerance in the Age of the Protestant Reformation The Quest for Spiritual Truth Beyond the Church Sebastian Franck and Valentin Weigel IX: Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Albrecht Classen is University Distinguished Professor of German Studies at the University of Arizona where he teaches and research medieval and early modern German and European literature and culture. In his by now ninety scholarly books he has examined many different aspects, most recently water (2017), the forest (2016), death (2016), multilingualism (2016), love, marriage, and sexuality (in several books over the last two decades), friendship, urban and rural space, crime and punishment, women’s voices, etc. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1986. He has received major grants and awards for teaching, research, and service.

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