CONGRESS CANCELED Orientalizing the Occident?: The East as a Method
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In the context of the emerging field of “Global Middle Ages”, which aims to analyze the global as it was experienced in the Middle Ages, this session wishes to keep the same vein of flexibility and agility in exploring reexaminations of how the medieval Western world perceived itself through the prism of the real/imagined Eastern world. With the rich cross-cultural transmissions at that time, we ask how the Oriental other contributed, in various ways, to the self-perception and life of the people in the West. Building on Edward Said’s Orientalism, which has been discussed for more than 40 years, we wish to shed new light on this field. Sophia Yashih Liu
CONGRESS CANCELED Orientalizing the Occident?: The East as a Method
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In the context of the emerging field of “Global Middle Ages”, which aims to analyze the global as it was experienced in the Middle Ages, this session wishes to keep the same vein of flexibility and agility in exploring reexaminations of how the medieval Western world perceived itself through the prism of the real/imagined Eastern world. With the rich cross-cultural transmissions at that time, we ask how the Oriental other contributed, in various ways, to the self-perception and life of the people in the West. Building on Edward Said’s Orientalism, which has been discussed for more than 40 years, we wish to shed new light on this field. Sophia Yashih Liu