Expectation vs. Experience: Encountering the Saracen Other in Middle English Romance

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The Monsters of Geoffrey Chaucer: The Miller in The General Prologue and the Miller in The Reeve’s Tale in The Canterbury Tales by Nazan Yıldız

“…The Others of the Middle Ages were not limited to beasts, but embraced Saracens and Jews as the monstrous Others alongside heretics, pagans, homosexuals, lepers and witches. …”
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The eastern frontier of the Roman Empire with special reference to the reign of Constantius II by Lightfoot, C, Chris S. Lightfoot

“…The local communities of Mesopotamia are investigated in chapter VI, and in the final chapter I give an impression of the effect which nomadic Saracens had on the imperial frontiers.</p> <p>I conclude that Constantius should be judged as a responsible and careful emperor, who succeeded in preserving the integrity of the eastern frontier in the face of a formidable and determined enemy.…”

Islam and Postcolonial Discourse / by Santesso, Esra Mirze, editor, McClung, James E., editor

Italy, 1000-1400 by Arkomanis, Ektoras

“…In the centuries that followed the Carolingian Renaissance (late eighth to late ninth centuries; see Chapter 32) the city of Rome itself faced harsh economic and political realities. These were hard to reconcile to the collective consciousness of its past grandeur. …”
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