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1. Saracens and the Making of English Identity

   The Auchinleck Manuscript

   By Siobhain Bly Calkin

   Series: Studies in Medieval History and Culture

   This book explores the ways in which discourses of religious, racial, and national identity blur and engage each other in the medieval West. Specifically, the book studies depictions of Muslims in England during the 1330s and argues that these depictions, although historically inaccurate, served to...

   Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge