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This study compares the approach to Islam and the Turks of two close contemporaries, writers at the Burgundian court, writing around 1455. While the official chronicler Georges Chastelain adopted a venemously anti-Muslim stance and called for a crusade against the Turks, Bertrandon de la Broquière portrayed the Turks in efforts to understand their religion and different way of life.
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In medieval mentality the world is viewed in a dichotomous fashion, the prototypical case being the pervasive axiologically-loaded opposition between the sacred and the profane. This mental structure, also reflected in the literature of the period, is characterized by the chronotope: the unbreakable bond of space and time, in which literary plotsareset. The chronotope is not mere decorum but participates, on a par with the plot and the characters, in the construction of the meaning and didactic message of a given literary work. This is especially conspicuousin its basic component: space. A tone extreme of the axis there is the space of culture: the court, the human abode, etc. It is being idealized –it is utopian, where as the world of wild life is hostile, dangerous and dystopian. However, when the opposition is embedded in the context of a specific genreorind ividual work, an axiological reversal of space may ensue. This is particularly relevant in courtly literature, whose plots are strictly connected with travelling, i.e. progression through space, tantamount to progression along the axiological scale.
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In this article, the author presents literary considerations on the 11th-century poem “Snow Child” from the “Cambridge Songs” (Carmina Cantabrigiensia) collection as an important element of courtly literature and clergy culture in the early Middle Ages.
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