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Fear and Loathing in the North : Jews and Muslims in Medieval Scandinavia and the Baltic Region / edited by Cordelia Heß, Jonathan Adams.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource(xx,402p.) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110346473
  • 3110346478
  • 9783110346466
  • 311034646X
  • 3110383926
  • 9783110383928
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 305.89240480902 22/ger
  • 900 23
LOC classification:
  • DS135.S32 F43 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- A Note on Spelling, Technical Terms, and Referencing -- 1. Encounters and Fantasies: Muslims, Jews and Christians in the North / Adams, Jonathan ; Heß, Cordelia -- 2. Trading with Muslims and the S̀mi in Medieval Norway / Bandlien, Bjørn -- 3. The Evidence for Islamic Scientific Works in Medieval Iceland / Etheridge, Christian -- 4. Fire-Worshipping Magicians of the North: Muslim Perceptions of Scandinavia and the Norsemen / Jankrift, Kay Peter -- 5. 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 / Schr̲der, Stefan -- 6. Jews and the Black Death in Fourteenth- Century Prussia: A Search for Traces / Heß, Cordelia -- 7. Jewish Physicians in the Teutonic Order's Prussian State in the Late Middle Ages / Duda, Michalina -- 8. The Muslim People of Desht-i Qipchaq in Fifteenth-Century Prussia / Kwiatkowski, Krzysztof -- 9. Karaite Settlement in Medieval Lithuania / Klimova, Veronika -- 10. Christian Hatred of the Other: Theological Rhetoric vs. Political Reality / Friedman, Yvonne -- 11. The Life of the Prophet Muḥammad in East Norse / Adams, Jonathan -- 12. Kyn / F̤lk / Þj̤ð / Ætt: Proto-Racial Thinking and its Application to Jews in Old Norse Literature / Cole, Richard -- 13. Missionary Theatre on the Baltic Frontier: Negotiating the Imagined Jew in the Riga Ludus Prophetarum / Cofman-Simhon, Sarit -- 14. Advocating, Converting, and Torturing: Images of Jews (and Muslimized Pagans) in the Kalanti Altarpiece / R̃s̃nen, Elina -- 15. The Teutonic Knights and their Attitude about Muslims: Saracens in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem and in the Baltic Region / Lotan, Shlomo -- 16. 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 / Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė, Jurgita -- 17. Infidel Turks and Schismatic Russians in Late Medieval Livonia / Maasing, Madis -- Index nominum -- Index locorum.
Summary: Due to the scarcity of sources regarding actual Jewish and Muslim communities and settlements, there has until now been little work on either the perception of or encounters with Muslims and Jews in medieval Scandinavia and the Baltic Region. The volume provides the reader with the possibility to appreciate and understand the complexity of Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations in the North.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- A Note on Spelling, Technical Terms, and Referencing -- 1. Encounters and Fantasies: Muslims, Jews and Christians in the North / Adams, Jonathan ; Heß, Cordelia -- 2. Trading with Muslims and the S̀mi in Medieval Norway / Bandlien, Bjørn -- 3. The Evidence for Islamic Scientific Works in Medieval Iceland / Etheridge, Christian -- 4. Fire-Worshipping Magicians of the North: Muslim Perceptions of Scandinavia and the Norsemen / Jankrift, Kay Peter -- 5. 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 / Schr̲der, Stefan -- 6. Jews and the Black Death in Fourteenth- Century Prussia: A Search for Traces / Heß, Cordelia -- 7. Jewish Physicians in the Teutonic Order's Prussian State in the Late Middle Ages / Duda, Michalina -- 8. The Muslim People of Desht-i Qipchaq in Fifteenth-Century Prussia / Kwiatkowski, Krzysztof -- 9. Karaite Settlement in Medieval Lithuania / Klimova, Veronika -- 10. Christian Hatred of the Other: Theological Rhetoric vs. Political Reality / Friedman, Yvonne -- 11. The Life of the Prophet Muḥammad in East Norse / Adams, Jonathan -- 12. Kyn / F̤lk / Þj̤ð / Ætt: Proto-Racial Thinking and its Application to Jews in Old Norse Literature / Cole, Richard -- 13. Missionary Theatre on the Baltic Frontier: Negotiating the Imagined Jew in the Riga Ludus Prophetarum / Cofman-Simhon, Sarit -- 14. Advocating, Converting, and Torturing: Images of Jews (and Muslimized Pagans) in the Kalanti Altarpiece / R̃s̃nen, Elina -- 15. The Teutonic Knights and their Attitude about Muslims: Saracens in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem and in the Baltic Region / Lotan, Shlomo -- 16. 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 / Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė, Jurgita -- 17. Infidel Turks and Schismatic Russians in Late Medieval Livonia / Maasing, Madis -- Index nominum -- Index locorum.

Due to the scarcity of sources regarding actual Jewish and Muslim communities and settlements, there has until now been little work on either the perception of or encounters with Muslims and Jews in medieval Scandinavia and the Baltic Region. The volume provides the reader with the possibility to appreciate and understand the complexity of Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations in the North.

Cordelia Heß, Gothenburg, and Jonathan Adams, Uppsala, Sweden.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed June 24 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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