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Western Views of Islam in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

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  • © 1999

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  1. David R. Blanks
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  2. Michael Frassetto
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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • David R Blanks, Michael Frassetto
    Pages 1-9

  3. Western Views of Islam in the Premodern Period: A Brief History of Past Approaches

    • David R Blanks
    Pages 11-53

  4. Popular Attitudes Toward Islam in Medieval Europe

    • Jo Ann Hoeppner Moran Cruz
    Pages 55-81

  5. The Image of the Saracen as Heretic in the Sermons of Ademar of Chabannes

    • Michael Frassetto
    Pages 83-96

  6. Muslims as Pagan Idolaters in Chronicles of the First Crusade

    • John V Tolan
    Pages 97-117

  7. The Essential Enemy: The Image of the Muslim as Adversary and Vassal in the Law and Literature of the Medieval Crown of Aragon

    • Donald J Kagay
    Pages 119-136

  8. Arabs and Latins in the Middle Ages: Enemies, Partners, and Scholars

    • Alauddin Samarrai
    Pages 137-145

  9. Islam in the Glossa Ordinaria

    • Ernest Kaulbach
    Pages 147-163

  10. “Seven trewe bataylis for Jesus Sake”: The Long-Suffering Saracen Palomides

    • Nina Dulin-Mallory
    Pages 165-172

  11. Noble Saracen or Muslim Enemy? The Changing Image of the Saracen in Late Medieval Italian Literature

    • Gloria Allaire
    Pages 173-184

  12. “New Barbarian” or Worthy Adversary? Humanist Constructs of the Ottoman Turks in Fifteenth-Century Italy

    • Nancy Bisaha
    Pages 185-205

  13. Early Modern Orientalism: Representations of Islam in Sixteenth-and Seventeenth-Century Europe

    • Daniel J Vitkus
    Pages 207-230

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 231-235
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Western Views of Islam in Medieval and Early Modern Europe considers the various attitudes of European religious and secular writers towards Islam during the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. Examining works from England, France, Italy, the Holy Lands, and Spain, the essays in this volume explore the reactions of Westerners to the culture and religion of Islam. Many of the works studied reveal the hostility toward Islam of Europeans and the creation of negative stereotypes of Muslims by Western writers. These essays also reveal attempts at accommodation and understanding that stand in contrast to the prevailing hostility that existed then and, in some ways, exists still today.

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MICHAEL FRASSETTO is Adjunct Instructor at Georgia State University.

DAVID R. BLANKS is Director of the Core Curriculum at the American University in Cairo.

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