{"product_id":"9781487547271-love-at-a-crux","title":"Love at a Crux","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe New Persian Romance in a Global Middle Ages\u003cbr\u003eExamining the emergence of the versified love story as a genre of New Persian literature in the early eleventh century, Love at a Crux situates this literary movement within the broader global history of romance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLove at a Crux\u003c\/em\u003e presents the emergence of versified love stories in the New Persian language as a crucial event in the history of romance. Using the tale of \u003ci\u003eVis \u0026amp; Rāmin\u003c\/i\u003e (w. 1054) as its focal point, the book explores how Persian court poets in the eleventh century reconfigured \"myths\" and \"fables\" from the distant past in ways that transformed the love story from a form of evening entertainment to a method of ethical, political, and affective self-inquiry. This transformation both anticipates and helps to explain the efflorescence of romance in many medieval cultures across the western flank of Afro-Eurasia.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBringing together traditions that are often sundered by modern disciplinary boundaries, \u003ci\u003eLove at a Crux\u003c\/i\u003e unearths the interconnections between New Persian and comparable traditions in ancient and medieval Greek, Arabic, Georgian, Old French, and Middle High German, offering scholars in classics, medieval studies, Middle Eastern literatures, and premodern world literature a case study in literary history as connected history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41513927114849,"sku":"9781487547271","price":64.23,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_35393088.jpg?v=1759919759","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781487547271-love-at-a-crux","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}