Alongside studies of the Alexander legend in medieval and early modern Latin, English, French, German, and Persian, Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages breaks new ground by examining rarer topics such as Hebrew Alexander romances, Coptic and Arabic Alexander materials, and early modern Malay versions of the Alexander legend.
Alongside studies of the Alexander legend in medieval and early modern Latin, English, French, German, and Persian, Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages breaks new ground by examining rarer topics such as Hebrew Alexander romances, Coptic and Arabic Alexander materials, and early modern Malay versions of the Alexander legend.
Markus Stock is an associate professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto.
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The Medieval Alexander: Transcultural Ambivalences (Markus Stock) East and West, Cosmopolitan and Imperial in the Roman Alexander (Thomas Hahn) Meanings of Nationality in the Medieval Alexander (Emily Reiner) Facing the Land of Darkness: Alexander, Islam, and the Quest for the Secrets of God (Christine Chism) Diaspora as Empire in the Hebrew Deeds of Alexander (Ma’aseh Alexandros) (Ruth Nisse) Hebrew Alexander Romances and Astrological Questions: Alexander, Aristotle, and the Medieval Jewish Audience (Shamma Boyarin) The Alexander Romance in Southeast Asia: Wonder, Islam, and the Knowledge of the World (Su Fang Ng) Re-Writing the Episode of Alexander and Candace in Medieval Persian Literature: Patterns, Sources, and Motif Transformation (Julia Rubanovich) Coptic Miniature Painting in the Arabic Alexander Romance (Faustina Doufikar-Aerts) Poet, Protagonist, and the Epic Alexander in Walter of ChÂtillon’s Alexandreis (Sylvia A. Parsons) Instrumentum Dei, Exemplum vanitatis, Speculum principis: Interpretations of Alexander in Medieval German Literature. A Survey (Klaus GrubmÜller) Science and Learning in the Middle Ages: Le Roman d’Alexandre en prose – A Study of Ms Stockholm, Royal Library Vu 20 (Maud PÉrez-Simon) The Visual Image of Alexander the Great: Transformations in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period (Thomas Noll)
The Medieval Alexander: Transcultural Ambivalences (Markus Stock) East and West, Cosmopolitan and Imperial in the Roman Alexander (Thomas Hahn) Meanings of Nationality in the Medieval Alexander (Emily Reiner) Facing the Land of Darkness: Alexander, Islam, and the Quest for the Secrets of God (Christine Chism) Diaspora as Empire in the Hebrew Deeds of Alexander (Ma’aseh Alexandros) (Ruth Nisse) Hebrew Alexander Romances and Astrological Questions: Alexander, Aristotle, and the Medieval Jewish Audience (Shamma Boyarin) The Alexander Romance in Southeast Asia: Wonder, Islam, and the Knowledge of the World (Su Fang Ng) Re-Writing the Episode of Alexander and Candace in Medieval Persian Literature: Patterns, Sources, and Motif Transformation (Julia Rubanovich) Coptic Miniature Painting in the Arabic Alexander Romance (Faustina Doufikar-Aerts) Poet, Protagonist, and the Epic Alexander in Walter of ChÂtillon’s Alexandreis (Sylvia A. Parsons) Instrumentum Dei, Exemplum vanitatis, Speculum principis: Interpretations of Alexander in Medieval German Literature. A Survey (Klaus GrubmÜller) Science and Learning in the Middle Ages: Le Roman d’Alexandre en prose – A Study of Ms Stockholm, Royal Library Vu 20 (Maud PÉrez-Simon) The Visual Image of Alexander the Great: Transformations in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period (Thomas Noll)
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