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