This is the first study to explore the relationship between Christianity, Judaism and Islam in the Early Modern period. Contributors debate the complicated terms in which these 'Religions of the Book' interacted. The collection illuminates this area of European culture from the late Middle Ages to the end of the Seventeenth century.

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Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2008

ISBN

9780230582576

Topic

Littérature

Subtopic

Théorie de la critique littéraire

Cover
Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Introduction: The Devil Citing Scripture: Christian Perceptions of the Religions of the Book
1 Christian Anti-Semitism and Intermedial Experience in Late Medieval England
2 The Crusade of Varna, 1443–1445: What Motivated the Crusaders?
3 'A Human Head to the Neck of a Horse': Hybridity, Monstrosity and Early Christian Conceptions of Muhammad and Islam
4 'Vile Interpretations' and 'Devilish Supplements': Jewish Exegesis and Linguistic Siege in Martin Luther's 'On the Jews and Their Lies' (1543)
5 "Turks" and "Christians": The Iconography of Possession in the Depiction of the Ottoman-Venetian-Hapsburg Frontiers, 1550–1689
6 Confounding Babel: The Language of Religion in the English Revolution
7 'A Parallel Made with the Jewish Sanhedrin': Tolerating Jews and Jewish Precedents in the Early Modern Church and State
8 Milton among the Muslims
Afterword
Select Bibliography
Index