Western Views of Islam in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

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.

Inhalt
Introduction; D.R.Blanks & M.Frassetto Western Views of Islam in the Pre-Modern Period: A Brief History of Past Approaches; D.R.Blanks Popular Attitudes Toward Islam in Medieval Europe; J.A.H.M.Cruz The Image of the Saracen as Heretic in the Sermons of Ademar of Chabannes; M.Frassetto Muslims as Pagan Idolaters in Chronicles of the First Crusade; J.V.Tolan The Essential Enemy: The Muslim as Adversary and Subject in the Law and Literature of the Medieval Crown of Aragon; D.J.Kagay Arabs and Latins in the Middle Ages: Enemies, Partners, and Scholars; A.Samarrai Islam in the Glossia Ordinaria; E.Kaulbach Seven Trewe Bataylis for Jesus Sake: The Long-Suffering Saracen Palomide; N.Dulin-Mallory Noble Saracen or Muslim Enemy? The Changing Image of the Saracen in late Medieval Italian Literature; G.Allaire New Barbarian or Worthy Adversary? Humanist Constructs of the Ottoman Turks in Fifteenth-century Italy; N.Bisaha Early Modern Orientalism: The Representation of Islam in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-century Europe; D.J.Vitkus