A Companion to Alexander Literature in the Middle Ages
Biographical note
Z. David Zuwiyya, Ph.D. (1995) in Spanish, University of California, Santa Barbara, is Professor of Spanish at Auburn University. He has published extensively on the Alexander romance and Aljamiado literature, including Islamic Legends concerning Alexander the Great (Binghamton, NY, 2001)
Readership
All those interested in the literature concerning Alexander the Great during the Medieval Period, as well as Alexander historians, and medievalists in general.
Reviews
"The Companion to Alexander Literature of the Middle Ages offers the reader a guide to the multilingual and multicultural complexity of the medieval Alexander legend. [It] is an excellent companion to the study of the medieval Alexander traditions."
David Elton Gay, Indiana University, in the Journal of Folklore Research, September 2012. Full review available at: click here
David Elton Gay, Indiana University, in the Journal of Folklore Research, September 2012. Full review available at: click here
Table of contents
Chapter One: Introduction: the Latin base texts for medieval Alexander literature, Richard Stoneman
Chapter Two: Jewish Traditions of Alexander, Saskia Dönitz
Chapter Three: The Group of Syriac Texts concerning Alexander,
Juan Pedro Monferrer Sala
Chapter Four: The Arabic Alexander Tradition, Z. David Zuwiyya
Chapter Five: Alexander among the People of Persia, Josef Wiesehöfer
Chapter Six: The Alexander Romance in Coptic, Daniel Selden
Chapter Seven: The Alexander Romance in Ethiopia, Peter Kotar
Chapter Eight: The Alexandreis of Gautier de Chatillon, Maura Lafferty
Chapter Nine: Medieval French Alexander Romance I, Laurence Harf-Lancner
Chapter Ten: Medieval French Alexander Romance II, Sarah-Jane Murray
Chapter Eleven: Alexander in Medieval Christian Spain, Z. David Zuwiyya
Chapter Twelve: The Medieval British Alexander Romance, David Ashurst
Chapter Thirteen: The German Alexander: D. Buschinger
Chapter Fourteen: Alexander the Great in Italian Literature of the Middle Ages, Roberta Morosini
Chapter Fifteen: Medieval Scandinavian Alexander Romance, David Ashurst
Chapter Two: Jewish Traditions of Alexander, Saskia Dönitz
Chapter Three: The Group of Syriac Texts concerning Alexander,
Juan Pedro Monferrer Sala
Chapter Four: The Arabic Alexander Tradition, Z. David Zuwiyya
Chapter Five: Alexander among the People of Persia, Josef Wiesehöfer
Chapter Six: The Alexander Romance in Coptic, Daniel Selden
Chapter Seven: The Alexander Romance in Ethiopia, Peter Kotar
Chapter Eight: The Alexandreis of Gautier de Chatillon, Maura Lafferty
Chapter Nine: Medieval French Alexander Romance I, Laurence Harf-Lancner
Chapter Ten: Medieval French Alexander Romance II, Sarah-Jane Murray
Chapter Eleven: Alexander in Medieval Christian Spain, Z. David Zuwiyya
Chapter Twelve: The Medieval British Alexander Romance, David Ashurst
Chapter Thirteen: The German Alexander: D. Buschinger
Chapter Fourteen: Alexander the Great in Italian Literature of the Middle Ages, Roberta Morosini
Chapter Fifteen: Medieval Scandinavian Alexander Romance, David Ashurst
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