Western Views of Islam in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Perception of Other

Introduction; D.R.Blanks & M.Frassetto Western Views of Islam in the Pre-Modern Period: A Brief History of Past Approaches; D.R.Blanks Popular Attitudes Toward Islam in Medieval Europe; J.A.H.M.Cruz The Image of the Saracen as Heretic in the Sermons of Ademar of Chabannes; M.Frassetto Muslims as Pagan Idolaters in Chronicles of the First Crusade; J.V.Tolan The Essential Enemy: The Muslim as Adversary and Subject in the Law and Literature of the Medieval Crown of Aragon; D.J.Kagay Arabs and Latins in the Middle Ages: Enemies, Partners, and Scholars; A.Samarrai Islam in the Glossia Ordinaria; E.Kaulbach Seven Trewe Bataylis for Jesus Sake: The Long-Suffering Saracen Palomide; N.Dulin-Mallory Noble Saracen or Muslim Enemy? The Changing Image of the Saracen in late Medieval Italian Literature; G.Allaire New Barbarian or Worthy Adversary? Humanist Constructs of the Ottoman Turks in Fifteenth-century Italy; N.Bisaha Early Modern Orientalism: The Representation of Islam in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-century Europe; D.J.Vitkus