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While the previous chapter focused on early medieval eastern images and their westward migration, this chapter looks at two high medieval images prevalent in Latin Christendom or, roughly, today’s Western Europe.1 These images cast Muslims in the familiar roles of pagans and as heretics, respectively. I will examine a more positive variation of each of these dominant roles and also introduce a third image—that of the Lustful Muslim—but will leave until later chapters to analyze this last representation further. The chronological and geographical differences between the images examined in this and the preceding chapter are important because, as our analysis has already indicated, a comprehensive understanding of the types of representations we are interested in here requires that we see them in light of the historical context in which they emerged.
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Levin, P.T. (2011). Inclusive Identities and Military Expansion: Latin Christendom in the High Middle Ages (ca. 1050–1350). In: Turkey and the European Union. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230119574_3
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