Fear and loathing in the North : Jews and Muslims in medieval Scandinavia and the Baltic Region /
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.