Fear and Loathing in the North: Jews and Muslims in Medieval Scandinavia and the Baltic Region

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2015

Fear and Loathing in the North

Jews and Muslims in Medieval Scandinavia and the Baltic Region

Edited by: Cordelia Heß and Jonathan Adams

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110346473

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Open Access

Due to the scarcity of sources regarding actual Jewish and Muslim communities and settlements, there has until now been little work on either the perception of or encounters with Muslims and Jews in medieval Scandinavia and the Baltic Region. The volume provides the reader with the possibility to appreciate and understand the complexity of Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations in the medieval North. The contributions cover topics such as cultural and economic exchange between Christians and members of other religions; evidence of actual Jews and Muslims in the Baltic Rim; images and stereotypes of the Other.
The volume thus presents a previously neglected field of research that will help nuance the overall picture of interreligious relations in medieval Europe.

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Cordelia Heß, Gothenburg, and Jonathan Adams, Uppsala, Sweden.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Open Access Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	xi
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	xiii
A Note on Spelling, Technical Terms, and Referencing Open Access Download PDF	xix
Introduction
1. Encounters and Fantasies: Muslims, Jews and Christians in the North Jonathan Adams and Cordelia Heß Open Access Download PDF	3
I. Contact
2. Trading with Muslims and the Sámi in Medieval Norway Bjørn Bandlien Open Access Download PDF	31
3. The Evidence for Islamic Scientific Works in Medieval Iceland Christian Etheridge Open Access Download PDF	49
4. Fire-Worshipping Magicians of the North: Muslim Perceptions of Scandinavia and the Norsemen Kay Peter Jankrift Open Access Download PDF	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 Stefan Schröder Open Access Download PDF	83
II. Settlement
6. Jews and the Black Death in Fourteenth- Century Prussia: A Search for Traces Cordelia Heß Open Access Download PDF	109
7. Jewish Physicians in the Teutonic Order’s Prussian State in the Late Middle Ages Michalina Duda Open Access Download PDF	127
8. The Muslim People of Desht-i Qipchaq in Fifteenth-Century Prussia Krzysztof Kwiatkowski Open Access Download PDF	141
9. Karaite Settlement in Medieval Lithuania Veronika Klimova Open Access Download PDF	171
III. Images and Stereotypes: Scandinavia
10. Christian Hatred of the Other: Theological Rhetoric vs. Political Reality Yvonne Friedman Open Access Download PDF	187
11. The Life of the Prophet Muḥammad in East Norse Jonathan Adams Open Access Download PDF	203
12. Kyn / Fólk / Þjóð / Ætt: Proto-Racial Thinking and its Application to Jews in Old Norse Literature Richard Cole Open Access Download PDF	239
IV. Images and Stereotypes: Baltic Region
13. Missionary Theatre on the Baltic Frontier: Negotiating the Imagined Jew in the Riga Ludus Prophetarum Sarit Cofman-Simhon Open Access Download PDF	271
14. Advocating, Converting, and Torturing: Images of Jews (and Muslimized Pagans) in the Kalanti Altarpiece Elina Räsänen Open Access Download PDF	285
15. The Teutonic Knights and their Attitude about Muslims: Saracens in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem and in the Baltic Region Shlomo Lotan Open Access Download PDF	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 Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė Open Access Download PDF	329
17. Infidel Turks and Schismatic Russians in Late Medieval Livonia Madis Maasing Open Access Download PDF	347
Index nominum Open Access Download PDF	389
Index locorum Open Access Download PDF	397

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Historians, Theologians, Medievalists
Pages
- Front matter: 20
- Main content: 402
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 4
- Coloured Illustrations: 19
Keywords: Medieval Studies; Theology; Interreligious Relations

eBook

Published: April 24, 2015
ISBN: 9783110346473

Hardcover

Published: April 24, 2015
ISBN: 9783110346466