Western Views of Islam in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Perception of Other

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-9
Western Views of Islam in the Premodern Period: A Brief History of Past Approaches....Pages 11-53
Popular Attitudes Toward Islam in Medieval Europe....Pages 55-81
The Image of the Saracen as Heretic in the Sermons of Ademar of Chabannes....Pages 83-96
Muslims as Pagan Idolaters in Chronicles of the First Crusade....Pages 97-117
The Essential Enemy: The Image of the Muslim as Adversary and Vassal in the Law and Literature of the Medieval Crown of Aragon....Pages 119-136
Arabs and Latins in the Middle Ages: Enemies, Partners, and Scholars....Pages 137-145
Islam in the Glossa Ordinaria....Pages 147-163
“Seven trewe bataylis for Jesus Sake”: The Long-Suffering Saracen Palomides....Pages 165-172
Noble Saracen or Muslim Enemy? The Changing Image of the Saracen in Late Medieval Italian Literature....Pages 173-184
“New Barbarian” or Worthy Adversary? Humanist Constructs of the Ottoman Turks in Fifteenth-Century Italy....Pages 185-205
Early Modern Orientalism: Representations of Islam in Sixteenth-and Seventeenth-Century Europe....Pages 207-230
Back Matter....Pages 231-235