Strangers at the Gate!: Multidisciplinary Explorations of Communities, Borders, and Othering in Medieval Western Europe

"This volume showcases a range of different approaches to strangers and
strangeness across medieval western Europe. It focuses on how
communities responded to the arrival of strangers and to different ways
in which individuals and groups were constructed as estranged. Further,
it reflects on different forms of border-crossing, from lived experience
to literary imagination and from specific journeys in precise contexts
to the conceptualisation of the shift from life to death. In the range
of its contributions – applying linguistic, historical, archaeological,
architectural, archival, literary, and theological analyses – it seeks
to bring together disciplines and geographical areas of study that are
too often strangers to one another in medieval studies.
Contributors are Sherif Abdelkarim, Anna Adamska, Adrien Carbonnet,
Wim De Clercq, Florian Dolberg, Joshua S. Easterling, Susan Irvine,
Marco Mostert, Richard North, James Plumtree, Euan McCartney Robson,
Beatrice Saletti, Simon C. Thomson and Gerben Verbrugghe."in Brill