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

• 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.ContentsIntroduction1. Jonathan Adams and Cordelia Heß: Encounters and Fantasies: Muslims, Jews and Christians in the NorthI. Contact2. Bjørn Bandlien: Trading with Muslims and the Sámi in Medieval Norway3. Christian Etheridge: The Evidence for Islamic Scientific Works in Medieval Iceland4. Kay Peter Jankrift: Fire-Worshipping Magicians of the North: Muslim Perceptions of Scandinavia and the Norsemen5. Stefan Schröder: The Encounter with Islam Between Doctrinal Image and Life Writing: Ambrosius Zeebout’s Report of Joos van Ghistele’s Travels to the East 1481–1485II. Settlement6. Cordelia Heß: Jews and the Black Death in Fourteenth-Century Prussia: A Search for Traces7. Michalina Duda: Jewish Physicians in the Teutonic Order’s Prussian State in the Late Middle Ages8. Krzysztof Kwiatkowski: The Muslim People of Desht-i Qipchaq in Fifteenth-Century Prussia9. Veronika Klimova: Karaite Settlement in Medieval LithuaniaIII. Images and Stereotypes: Scandinavia10. Yvonne Friedman: Christian Hatred of the Other: Theological Rhetoric vs. PoliticalReality11. Jonathan Adams: The Life of the Prophet Muḥammad in East Norse12. Richard Cole: Kyn / Fólk / Þjóð / Ætt: Proto-Racial Thinking and its Application to Jews in Old Norse LiteratureIV. Images and Stereotypes: Baltic Region13. Sarit Cofman-Simhon: Missionary Theatre on the Baltic Frontier: Negotiating the Imagined Jew in the Riga Ludus Prophetarum14. Elina Räsänen: Advocating, Converting, and Torturing: Images of Jews (and Muslimized Pagans) in the Kalanti Altarpiece15. Shlomo Lotan: The Teutonic Knights and their Attitude about Muslims: Saracens in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem and in the Baltic Region16. Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė: 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 Stereotypes17. Madis Maasing: Infidel Turks and Schismatic Russians in Late Medieval Livonia

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HUMANIORA  -- Historia och arkeologi (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- History and Archaeology (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Filosofi, etik och religion (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Philosophy, Ethics and Religion (hsv//eng)

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Jews

Muslims

Middle Ages

medieval Scandinavia

medieval Baltic

antisemitism

Islamophobia

Historia

History

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