Fear and loathing in the North : Jews and Muslims in medieval Scandinavia and the Baltic Region / edited by Cordelia Hess and Jonathan Adams.

Contributor(s): Hess, Cordelia [editor.] | Adams, Jonathan, 1971 December 19- [editor.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berlin : De Gruyter, [2015]Copyright date: �2015Description: 1 online resource (422 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783110346473Subject(s): Jews -- Scandinavia -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses | Muslims -- Scandinavia -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses | Jews -- Baltic Sea Region -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses | Muslims -- Baltic Sea Region -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses | Scandinavia -- Ethnic relations -- Congresses | Baltic Sea Region -- Ethnic relations -- CongressesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fear and loathing in the North : Jews and Muslims in medieval Scandinavia and the Baltic Region.DDC classification: 305.892/40480902 LOC classification: DS135.S32 | F43 2015Online resources: Wie greife ich auf das E-Book zu? | Click to View
Contents:
Encounters and fantasies : Muslims, Jews and Christians in the North / Jonathan Adams and Cordelia Hess -- I. Contact -- Trading with Muslims and the S�ami in medieval Norway / Bjrn 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 Schr�oder -- 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 / F�olk / �j�o / �tt : 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 R�as�anen -- 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 �Siau�ciunait�e-Verbickien�e -- Infidel Turks and schismatic Russians in late medieval Livonia / Madis Maasing -- Index nominum -- Index locorum.
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Encounters and fantasies : Muslims, Jews and Christians in the North / Jonathan Adams and Cordelia Hess -- I. Contact -- Trading with Muslims and the S�ami in medieval Norway / Bjrn 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 Schr�oder -- 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 / F�olk / �j�o / �tt : 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 R�as�anen -- 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 �Siau�ciunait�e-Verbickien�e -- Infidel Turks and schismatic Russians in late medieval Livonia / Madis Maasing -- Index nominum -- Index locorum.

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