The religions of the book
Subtitle: Christian perceptions, 1400-1660
By: edited by Matthew Dimmock and Andrew Hadfield.
Contributors: Dimmock, Matthew.; Hadfield, Andrew.
Series: Early modern literature in history
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Subjects: English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism; Christianity and other religions in literature; Christianity and antisemitism in literature; Judaism in literature; Islam in literature; Christianity and other religions -- Judaism -- History; Christianity and other religions -- Islam -- History; Europe -- Religion
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the devil citing scipture: Christian perceptions of the religions of the book / Matthew Dimmock and Andrew Hadfield; title: Christian antisemitism and intermedial experience in late medieval England / Anthony Bale; title: The Crusade of Varna, 1443-1445: what motivated the crusaders? / Colin Imber; title: "A human head to the neck of a horse": hybridity, monstrosity and early Christian conceptions of Muhammad and Islam / Matthew Dimmock; title: "Vile interpretations" and "devilish supplements": Jewish exegesis and linguistic siege in Martin Luther's On the Jews and their lies (1543) / Raphael Hallett; title: "Turks" and "Christians": the iconography of possession in the depiction of the Ottoman-Venetian-Hapsburg frontiers, 1550-1689 / Palmira Brummett; title: Confounding Babel: the language of religion in the English Revolution / Matthew Birchwood; title: "A parallel made with the Jewish sanhedrin": tolerating Jews and Jewish precedents in the early modern church and state / Eliane Glaser; title: Milton among the Muslims / Gerald MacLean.