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Ramos, Eduardo. “Imagined Invasions: Muslim Vikings in Laȝamon’s Brut and Middle English Romances.” Speculum 99, no. 2 (2024): 432–57.
Study of medieval English romances which depict invasions of England by Vikings and Muslims. The article demonstrates how these texts create a theoretical space in which Scandinavian foreigners can be incorporated into the Christian English social world while Muslims are held up as an irredeemable contrast. Of interest to students of English, medieval studies, and religious studies.
