Fear and loathing in the North
Subtitle: Jews and Muslims in medieval Scandinavia and the Baltic Region
By: edited by Cordelia Hess and Jonathan Adams
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9783110346466
Subjects: Muslims; Congresses; Jews; Ethnic relations; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Encounters and fantasies : Muslims, Jews and Christians in the North / Jonathan Adams and Cordelia Hess; title: I. Contact; title: Trading with Muslims and the Sámi in medieval Norway / Bjørn Bandlien; title: The evidence for Islamic scientific works in medieval Iceland / Christian Etheridge; title: Fire-worshipping magicians of the north : Muslim perceptions of Scandinavia and the Norsemen / Kay Peter Jankrift; title: 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 Schröder; title: II. Settlement; title: Jews and the Black Death in fourteenth-century Prussia : a search for traces / Cordelia Hess; title: Jewish physicians in the Teutonic Order's Prussian state in the late Middle Ages / Michalina Duda; title: The Muslim people of Desht-i Qipchaq in fifteenth-century Prussia / Krzysztof Kwiatkowski; title: Karaite settlement in medieval Lithuania / Veronika Klimova; title: III. Images and stereotypes: Scandinavia; title: Christian hatred of the other : theological rhetoric vs. political reality / Yvonne Friedman; title: The life of the Prophet Muhammad in East Norse / Jonathan Adams; title: Kyn / Fólk / Þjóð / Ætt : proto-Racial thinking and its application to Jews in Old Norse literature / Richard Cole; title: IV. Images and stereotypes: Baltic Region; title: Missionary theatre on the Baltic frontier : negotiating the imagined Jew in the Riga Ludus Prophetarum / Sarit Cofman-Simhon; title: Advocating, converting, and torturing : images of Jews (and Muslimized Pagans) in the Kalanti altarpiece / Elina Räsänen; title: The Teutonic knights and their attitude about Muslims : Saracens in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem and in the Baltic Region / Shlomo Lotan; title: 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 Šiaučiunaitė-Verbickienė; title: Infidel Turks and schismatic Russians in late medieval Livonia / Madis Maasing; title: Index nominum; title: Index locorum.