Knights in Arms

Prose Romance, Masculinity, and Eastern Mediterranean Trade in Early Modern England, 1565-1655

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

Drawing from medieval chivalric culture, the prose romance was a popular early modern genre featuring stories of courtship, combat, and travel. Flourishing at the same moment as the growing English trade with the Eastern Mediterranean, prose romances adopted both Eastern settings and new conceptions of masculinity – commercial rather than chivalric, erotic rather than militant.Knights in Arms moves beyond the best-known examples of the genre, such as Philip Sidney’s Arcadia, to consider the broad range of texts which featured the Eastern Mediterranean in this era. Goran Stanivukovic highlights how eroticism within prose romances, particularly homoerotic desire, facilitated commercial, cross-ethnic, and cross-cultural interactions, shaping European knowledge and conceptions of the Mediterranean and the Ottoman Empire. Through his careful examination of these lesser known works, Stanivukovic sheds important light on early modern trade, Mediterranean politics, and the changing meaning of masculinity in an age of commercial expansion.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-01-08
Mått:163 x 239 x 27 mm
Vikt:580 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
ISBN:9781442648876

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Goran Stanivukovic is a professor in the English Department at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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‘This book takes an innovative and fascinating outlook on prose romances of the Eastern Mediterranean.’- Giulia M. Mari (Sixteenth Century Journal vol 68:01:2017) "Knights in Arms makes some very interesting and suggestive arguments, most notably about English efforts to bypass Persian middlemen along the Silk Road and England’s new trade with Turkey….Its topics and texts are both important and under-studied, and Stanikuvic makes a good case for his questions and perspectives."- Elizabeth Hodgson, University of British Columbia (University of Toronto Quarterly, vol 87 3, Summer 2018)

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceIntroduction: Mapping TerritoriesPart I: The Knight and Romances of Trade1. Purchasing Kingdoms in the Eastern Mediterranean2. The Knight on the Silk Road3. The Marriage of Merchant Kingdoms in Romances of MenPart II: Intimacy, Sexuality, and Queer Levant4. Desire and Knightly Masculinity5. Cruising the Eastern Mediterranean: The Knight, the Friend, the Favourite, and Homoerotic RomanceAfterword: Mediterranean Masculinities