{"product_id":"love-at-a-crux-cameron-cross-9781487547271","title":"Love at a Crux: The New Persian Romance in a Global Middle Ages","description":"\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\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cameron Cross\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1487547277\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781487547271\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/05\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 390\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Cameron Cross","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44079216263423,"sku":"9781487547271","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_efc2ed64-0e65-481f-b8c8-324932fdcd4c.jpg?v=1685479849","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/love-at-a-crux-cameron-cross-9781487547271","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}