{"product_id":"knights-in-arms-9781442648876","title":"Knights in Arms","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKnights 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  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","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408371654999,"sku":"9781442648876","price":45.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442648876.jpg?v=1730502655","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/knights-in-arms-9781442648876","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}