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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Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

1999

ISBN

9780312299675

Topic

History

Subtopic

Middle Eastern History

Index

History

Cover
Western Views of Islam in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Table Of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Western Views of Islam in the Premodern Period: A Brief History of Past Approaches
2 Popular Attitudes Toward Islam in Medieval Europe
3 The Image of the Saracen as Heretic in the Sermons of Ademar of Chabannes
4 Muslims as Pagan Idolaters in Chronicles of the First Crusade
5 The Essential Enemy: The Image of the Muslim as Adversary and Vassal in the Law and Literature of the Medieval Crown of Aragon
6 Arabs and Latins in the Middle Ages: Enemies, Partners, and Scholars
7 Islam in the Glossa Ordinaria
8 “Seven trewe bataylis for Jesus Sake”: The Long-Suffering Saracen Palomides
9 Noble Saracen or Muslim Enemy? The Changing Image of the Saracen in Late Medieval Italian Literature
10 “New Barbarian” or Worthy Adversary? Humanist Constructs of the Ottoman Turks in Fifteenth-Century Italy
11 Early Modern Orientalism: Representations of Islam in Sixteenth-and Seventeenth-Century Europe
List of Contributors
Index