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Berlin : De Gruyter, [2015]

1 online resource (422 pages)

ISBN 9783110346473 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9783110346466 (acid-free paper)

Print version: Fear and loathing in the North : Jews and Muslims in medieval Scandinavia and the Baltic Region. Berlin : De Gruyter, [2015] ISBN 9783110346466

Includes bibliographical references and index

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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