Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Cross-Cultural Encounters

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Andalusian Iberias: From Spanish to Iberian Literature

Chapter 3 Using Feminist Pedagogy to Explore Connectivity in the Medieval Mediterranean

Chapter 4 A Journey through the Silk Road in a Cosmopolitan Classroom

Chapter 6 Stranger Than Fiction: Early Modern Travel Narratives and the Antiracist Classroom

Chapter 7 Different Shakespeares: Thinking Globally in an Early Modern Literature Course

Chapter 8 The Moor of America: Approaching the Crisis of Race and Religion in the Renaissance and the Twenty-First Century

Chapter 9 “Real” Bodies? Race, Corporality, and Contradiction in The Arabian Nights and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Il Fiore Delle Mille E Una Notte (1974)

Chapter 10 Encountering Saracens in Italian Chivalric Epic and Folk Performance Traditions

Chapter 11 Beowulf as Hero of Empire

Chapter 12 Resurrecting Callimachus : Pop Music, Puppets, and the Necessity of Performance in Teaching Medieval Drama

Chapter 13 Teaching Chaucer through Convergence Culture: The New Media Middle Ages as Cross-Cultural Encounter