Western Views of Islam in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Western Views of Islam in the Premodern Period: A Brief History of Past Approaches

Chapter 3 Popular Attitudes Toward Islam in Medieval Europe

Chapter 4 The Image of the Saracen as Heretic in the Sermons of Ademar of Chabannes

Chapter 5 Muslims as Pagan Idolaters in Chronicles of the First Crusade

Chapter 6 The Essential Enemy: The Image of the Muslim as Adversary and Vassal in the Law and Literature of the Medieval Crown of Aragon

Chapter 7 Arabs and Latins in the Middle Ages: Enemies, Partners, and Scholars

Chapter 8 Islam in the Glossa Ordinaria

Chapter 9 “Seven trewe bataylis for Jesus Sake”: The Long-Suffering Saracen Palomides

Chapter 10 Noble Saracen or Muslim Enemy? The Changing Image of the Saracen in Late Medieval Italian Literature

Chapter 11 “New Barbarian” or Worthy Adversary? Humanist Constructs of the Ottoman Turks in Fifteenth-Century Italy

Chapter 12 Early Modern Orientalism: Representations of Islam in Sixteenth-and Seventeenth-Century Europe