Medieval Christian Perceptions of Islam: A Book of Essays

ISBN-13: 9780415928922 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 438 str.

John V. Tolan

Opis

These fifteen original essays focus on unfamiliar texts that reflect the wide range of medieval Christianity's preoccupation with Islam.

Spis treści

Introduction * I: Eastern Christian Responses to Islam Early Eastern Christian Responses to Islam, John Lamoreaux, Syriac and Armenian Christian Responses to the ISlamization of the Mongols, David Bundy, Manuel I Comnenus and the 'God of Muhammad': A Study in Byzantine Ecclesiasticl Politics, Craig L. Hanson II: Antoi-Muslim Polemic: Eighth to Twelfth Centuries Christian Views of Islam in Early Medieval Spain, Kenneth B. Wolf * The Tathlth al-wahdonyah: A Mozarabic Polemic Against Islam, Thomas Burman III: Theological Responses to ISlam: Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries Antichrist and Islam in Medieval Franciscan Exegesis, David Burr * Nicholas of Lyra and Paul of Burgos on Islam, Philip Krey * Frederick II, His Saracens, and the Law, John Philip Lomax * John-Jerome of Prague and the Religion of the Saracens, William P. Hyland= IV: Islam in Western Vernacular Literature, Jacob van Maerlant on Muhammad and Islam, Geert H.M. Claassens * Portrayal of Muslims in Andrea da Barberino's Guerrino il Meschino, Gloria Allaire * Machomete and Mandeville's Travels, Frank Grady V: The Sixteenth Century Arredondo's Castillo inexpugnable de la feAnti-Islamic Propaganda in the Age of Charles V. John S. Geary * The Guerra civiles de Granada:The Idealization of Assimilation, Rhonda Zaid * The Myth of Isma'il Safavi: Political Rhetoric and Divine Kingship, Palmira Brummett

O autorze

John Victor Tolan