Fear and loathing in the North
| Titel: | Fear and loathing in the North : Jews and Muslims in Medieval Scandinavia and the Baltic Region / Edited by Cordelia Heß and Jonathan Adams. [Conference Fear and Loathing in the North: Muslims and Jews in Medieval Scandinavia and the Baltic Region, held in Stockholm on 10 - 11 June 2013] |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Berlin : De Gruyter, 2015 |
| Umfang: | XX, 402 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 9783110346466 ; 311034646X |
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X
- List of Illustrations
- p. ix
- Acknowledgements
- p. xi
- Contributors
- p. xiii
- A Note on Spelling, Technical Terms, and Referencing
- p. xix
- Introduction
- 1
- Encounters and Fantasies: Muslims, Jews and Christians in the North
- p. 3
- I
- Contact
- 2
- Trading with Muslims and the Simi In Medieval Norway
- p. 31
- 3
- The Evidence for Islamic Scientific Works in Medieval Iceland
- p. 49
- 4
- Fire-Worshipping Magicians of the North: Muslim Perceptions of Scandinavia and the Norsemen
- p. 75
- 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
- p. 83
- II
- Settlement
- 6
- Jews and the Black Death In Fourteenth-Century Prussia: A Search for Traces
- p. 109
- 7
- Jewish Physicians in the Teutonic Order's Prussian State in the Late Middle Ages
- p. 127
- 8
- The Muslim People of Desht-i Qipchaq in Fifteenth-Century Prussia
- p. 141
- 9
- Karaite Settlement in Medieval Lithuania
- p. 171
- III
- Images and Stereotypes: Scandinavia
- 10
- Christian Hatred of the Other: Theological Rhetoric vs. Political Reality
- p. 187
- 11
- The Life of the Prophet Muhammad in East Norse
- p. 203
- 12
- Kyn / Fólk / pjóo / Æt: Proto-Racial Thinking and its Application to Jews in Old Norse Literature
- p. 239
- IV
- Images and Stereotypes: Baltic Region
- 13
- Missionary Theatre on the Baltic Frontier: Negotiating the Imagined Jew in the Riga Ludus Prophetarum
- p. 271
- 14
- Advocating, Converting, and Torturing: Images of Jews (and Muslimized Pagans) in the Kalanti Altarpiece
- p. 285
- 15
- The Teutonic Knights and their Attitude about Muslims: Saracens in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem and in the Baltic Region
- p. 313
- 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
- p. 329
- 17
- Infidel Turks and Schismatic Russians in Late Medieval Livonia
- p. 347
- Index nominum
- p. 389
- Index locorum
- p. 397
