"In Dante and the Orient, Schildgen argues that Dante's treatment of the East enabled him to use the rhetoric employed in crusade narratives and other travel li

A groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is—three decades after its first publication—one of

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Representations of Muslims have never been more common in the Western imagination than they are today. Building on Orientalist stereotypes constructed over cent