Here you will find references to a few of the key texts that have informed my work thus far:

• Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Idols in the East: European Representations of Islam and the Orient, 1100-1450 (Cornell University Press, 2009).
• Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Medieval Identity Machines (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003).
• Geraldine Heng, Empire of Magic: Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy (New York and Chichester: Columbia University Press, 2003).
• Sharon Kinoshita, Medieval Boundaries: Rethinking Difference in Old French Literature, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006).
• Lynn Tarte Ramey, Christian, Saracen and Genre in Medieval French Literature, (New York: Routledge, 2001).
• Debra Higgs Strickland, Saracens, Demons and Jews: Making Monsters in Medieval Art (Princeton and Woodstock: Princeton University Press, 2003).

 

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