#medieval-literature

#medieval-literature

This book asks: why these Black heroes? What did their blackness do within the worlds built through storytelling among Arabic-speaking Muslims in the Middle Ages? What possible futures did it conjure and delimit, what present orders did it explain, and what pasts did it help to index morally, geographically, and culturally?

Falk and Wade believe the correct translation of "elves" is "wolves," due to a scribe's muddling of the letters "y" and "w" in the Humiliamini sermon.

For more than half a century J.R.R. Tolkien has gripped the public imagination with his tales of wizards, hobbits, orcs, and elves. But Tolkien took his inspiration from a far older body of literature, the epics, poems, lais and sagas of the Middle Ages.

"In the medieval context, children were often seen as innocent yet insightful beings, capable of expressing truths and moral lessons that adults might overlook or forget."