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Book SynopsisKnights in Arms moves beyond the best-known examples of the genre, such as Philip Sidney's Arcadia, to consider the broad range of texts which featured the Eastern Mediterranean in this era.
Trade Review‘This book takes an innovative and fascinating outlook on prose romances of the Eastern Mediterranean.’ -- Giulia M. Mari * Sixteenth Century Journal vol 68:01:2017 *
"Knights in Arms makes some very interesting and suggestive arguments, most notably about English efforts to bypass Persian middlemen along the Silk Road and England’s new trade with Turkey….Its topics and texts are both important and under-studied, and Stanikuvic makes a good case for his questions and perspectives." -- Elizabeth Hodgson, University of British Columbia * University of Toronto Quarterly, vol 87 3, Summer 2018 *
Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Mapping Territories Part I: The Knight and Romances of Trade 1. Purchasing Kingdoms in the Eastern Mediterranean 2. The Knight on the Silk Road 3. The Marriage of Merchant Kingdoms in Romances of Men Part II: Intimacy, Sexuality, and Queer Levant 4. Desire and Knightly Masculinity 5. Cruising the Eastern Mediterranean: The Knight, the Friend, the Favourite, and Homoerotic Romance Afterword: Mediterranean Masculinities
