Fear and loathing in the North : Jews and Muslims in medieval Scandinavia and the Baltic Region - Hess, Cordelia; Adams, Jonathan, 1971 December 19- (Berlin : De Gruyter, 2015)
Encounters and fantasies : Muslims, Jews and Christians in the North / Jonathan Adams and Cordelia Hess -- I. Contact -- Trading with Muslims and the Sami 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 Schroder -- 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 / Folk / jo / 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 Rasanen -- 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 Siauciunaite-Verbickiene -- Infidel Turks and schismatic Russians in late medieval Livonia / Madis Maasing -- Index nominum -- Index locorum.
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Keywords: 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 -- Congresses; Electronic books