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

Cover......Page 1
Table Of Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
1 Western Views of Islam in the Premodern Period: A Brief History of Past Approaches......Page 24
2 Popular Attitudes Toward Islam in Medieval Europe......Page 68
3 The Image of the Saracen as Heretic in the Sermons of Ademar of Chabannes......Page 96
4 Muslims as Pagan Idolaters in Chronicles of the First Crusade......Page 110
5 The Essential Enemy: The Image of the Muslim as Adversary and Vassal in the Law and Literature of the Medieval Crown of Aragon......Page 132
6 Arabs and Latins in the Middle Ages: Enemies, Partners, and Scholars......Page 150
7 Islam in the Glossa Ordinaria......Page 160
8 “Seven trewe bataylis for Jesus Sake”: The Long-Suffering Saracen Palomides......Page 178
9 Noble Saracen or Muslim Enemy? The Changing Image of the Saracen in Late Medieval Italian Literature......Page 186
10 “New Barbarian” or Worthy Adversary? Humanist Constructs of the Ottoman Turks in Fifteenth-Century Italy......Page 198
11 Early Modern Orientalism: Representations of Islam in Sixteenth-and Seventeenth-Century Europe......Page 220
List of Contributors......Page 244
C......Page 246
N......Page 247
Z......Page 248