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

S.C. Thomson, Ph.D. (2017), is Senior Lecturer in Medieval English Language and Literature at Heinrich-Heine-Universität in Düsseldorf. He has published on Old English manuscripts and poetry, on stories and imagery in the English reign of Cnut, and on the medievalist novel The Mere Wife, and has edited volumes on sensory perception and on storytelling in medieval western Europe.

• AcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Fearing, Facing, and Being a StrangerS.C. Thomson1 Studying Communication in the Margins of Medieval SocietyMarco Mostert2 HITting on Migration in the Murky Middle Ages: Advocating an Interdisciplinary ApproachA Case Study in Old English/Old Norse Language ContactFlorian Dolberg3 The Language of the Mute Strangers: The Ambivalent Position of the German Language in the Late Medieval Polish KingdomAnna Adamska4 How Foreigners Entered Italian Cities in the Fifteenth Century: The Case of BolognaBeatrice Saletti5 Little Flanders Beyond Wales: The Historical Context of Flemish Settlement Landscapes in South PembrokeshireGerben Verbrugghe and Wim De Clercq6 Repopulating the City with Strangers: The Forced Colonization of Arras by the King of France Louis XI (1479–1484)Adrien Carbonnet7 Strangers in the Cathedral: Place, Landscape and Nostalgia in Symeon of Durham’s Libellus de ExordioEuan McCartney Robson8 Resident Stranger: Sæmundr in the AshkenazRichard North9 The Perils of Medieval Bridges: Gregory, Grendel and GawainSusan Irvine10 Strange Confessions: Salvation and Prayers for the Dead in Caesarius of Heisterbach’s Dialogue on MiraclesJoshua S. Easterling11 Placing the Green Children of WoolpitJames Plumtree12 AfterwordSherif AbdelkarimBibliographyIndex