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14. Advocating, Converting, and Torturing: Images of Jews (and Muslimized Pagans) in the Kalanti Altarpiece
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Elina Räsänen
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- List of Illustrations ix
- Acknowledgements xi
- Contributors xiii
- A Note on Spelling, Technical Terms, and Referencing xix
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Introduction
- 1. Encounters and Fantasies: Muslims, Jews and Christians in the North 3
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I. Contact
- 2. Trading with Muslims and the Sámi in Medieval Norway 31
- 3. The Evidence for Islamic Scientific Works in Medieval Iceland 49
- 4. Fire-Worshipping Magicians of the North: Muslim Perceptions of Scandinavia and the Norsemen 75
- 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 83
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II. Settlement
- 6. Jews and the Black Death in Fourteenth- Century Prussia: A Search for Traces 109
- 7. Jewish Physicians in the Teutonic Order’s Prussian State in the Late Middle Ages 127
- 8. The Muslim People of Desht-i Qipchaq in Fifteenth-Century Prussia 141
- 9. Karaite Settlement in Medieval Lithuania 171
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III. Images and Stereotypes: Scandinavia
- 10. Christian Hatred of the Other: Theological Rhetoric vs. Political Reality 187
- 11. The Life of the Prophet Muḥammad in East Norse 203
- 12. Kyn / Fólk / Þjóð / Ætt: Proto-Racial Thinking and its Application to Jews in Old Norse Literature 239
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IV. Images and Stereotypes: Baltic Region
- 13. Missionary Theatre on the Baltic Frontier: Negotiating the Imagined Jew in the Riga Ludus Prophetarum 271
- 14. Advocating, Converting, and Torturing: Images of Jews (and Muslimized Pagans) in the Kalanti Altarpiece 285
- 15. The Teutonic Knights and their Attitude about Muslims: Saracens in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem and in the Baltic Region 313
- 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 329
- 17. Infidel Turks and Schismatic Russians in Late Medieval Livonia 347
- Index nominum 389
- Index locorum 397
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- List of Illustrations ix
- Acknowledgements xi
- Contributors xiii
- A Note on Spelling, Technical Terms, and Referencing xix
-
Introduction
- 1. Encounters and Fantasies: Muslims, Jews and Christians in the North 3
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I. Contact
- 2. Trading with Muslims and the Sámi in Medieval Norway 31
- 3. The Evidence for Islamic Scientific Works in Medieval Iceland 49
- 4. Fire-Worshipping Magicians of the North: Muslim Perceptions of Scandinavia and the Norsemen 75
- 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 83
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II. Settlement
- 6. Jews and the Black Death in Fourteenth- Century Prussia: A Search for Traces 109
- 7. Jewish Physicians in the Teutonic Order’s Prussian State in the Late Middle Ages 127
- 8. The Muslim People of Desht-i Qipchaq in Fifteenth-Century Prussia 141
- 9. Karaite Settlement in Medieval Lithuania 171
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III. Images and Stereotypes: Scandinavia
- 10. Christian Hatred of the Other: Theological Rhetoric vs. Political Reality 187
- 11. The Life of the Prophet Muḥammad in East Norse 203
- 12. Kyn / Fólk / Þjóð / Ætt: Proto-Racial Thinking and its Application to Jews in Old Norse Literature 239
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IV. Images and Stereotypes: Baltic Region
- 13. Missionary Theatre on the Baltic Frontier: Negotiating the Imagined Jew in the Riga Ludus Prophetarum 271
- 14. Advocating, Converting, and Torturing: Images of Jews (and Muslimized Pagans) in the Kalanti Altarpiece 285
- 15. The Teutonic Knights and their Attitude about Muslims: Saracens in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem and in the Baltic Region 313
- 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 329
- 17. Infidel Turks and Schismatic Russians in Late Medieval Livonia 347
- Index nominum 389
- Index locorum 397
