Fear and loathing in the North : Jews and Muslims in medieval Scandinavia and the Baltic Region /

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Other Authors: Hess, Cordelia (Editor), Adams, Jonathan, 1971 December 19- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin : De Gruyter, [2015]
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Table of Contents:
  • Encounters and fantasies : Muslims, Jews and Christians in the North / Jonathan Adams and Cordelia Hess
  • I. Contact
  • Trading with Muslims and the Sámi in medieval Norway / Bjørn Bandlien
  • The evidence for Islamic scientific works in medieval Iceland / Christian Etheridge
  • Fire-worshipping magicians of the north : Muslim perceptions of Scandinavia and the Norsemen / Kay Peter Jankrift
  • The encounter with Islam between doctrinal image and life writing : Ambrosius Zeebout's report of Joos van Ghistele's travels to the East, 1481-1485 / Stefan Schröder
  • II. Settlement
  • Jews and the Black Death in fourteenth-century Prussia : a search for traces / Cordelia Hess
  • Jewish physicians in the Teutonic Order's Prussian state in the late Middle Ages / Michalina Duda
  • The Muslim people of Desht-i Qipchaq in fifteenth-century Prussia / Krzysztof Kwiatkowski
  • Karaite settlement in medieval Lithuania / Veronika Klimova
  • III. Images and stereotypes: Scandinavia
  • Christian hatred of the other : theological rhetoric vs. political reality / Yvonne Friedman
  • The life of the Prophet Muhammad in East Norse / Jonathan Adams
  • Kyn / Fólk / Þjóð / Ætt : proto-Racial thinking and its application to Jews in Old Norse literature / Richard Cole
  • IV. Images and stereotypes: Baltic Region
  • Missionary theatre on the Baltic frontier : negotiating the imagined Jew in the Riga Ludus Prophetarum / Sarit Cofman-Simhon
  • Advocating, converting, and torturing : images of Jews (and Muslimized Pagans) in the Kalanti altarpiece / Elina Räsänen
  • The Teutonic knights and their attitude about Muslims : Saracens in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem and in the Baltic Region / Shlomo Lotan
  • The image of the infidelis in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania : a comparison of the trends in the creation of anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim stereotypes / Jurgita Šiaučiunaitė-Verbickienė
  • Infidel Turks and schismatic Russians in late medieval Livonia / Madis Maasing
  • Index nominum
  • Index locorum.