Fear and loathing in the North : Jews and Muslims in medieval Scandinavia and the Baltic Region

Open Access 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. Encounters and fantasies : Muslims, Jews and Christians in the North / Jonathan Adams and Cordelia Hess I. Contact Trading with Muslims and the Sámi in medieval Norway / Bjørn Bandlien The evidence for Islamic scientific works in medieval Iceland / Christian Etheridge Fire-worshipping magicians of the north : Muslim perceptions of Scandinavia and the Norsemen / Kay Peter Jankrift 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 / Stefan Schröder II. Settlement Jews and the Black Death in fourteenth-century Prussia : a search for traces / Cordelia Hess Jewish physicians in the Teutonic Order's Prussian state in the late Middle Ages / Michalina Duda The Muslim people of Desht-i Qipchaq in fifteenth-century Prussia / Krzysztof Kwiatkowski Karaite settlement in medieval Lithuania / Veronika Klimova III. Images and stereotypes: Scandinavia Christian hatred of the other : theological rhetoric vs. political reality / Yvonne Friedman The life of the Prophet Muhammad in East Norse / Jonathan Adams Kyn / Fólk / Þjóð / Ætt : proto-Racial thinking and its application to Jews in Old Norse literature / Richard Cole IV. Images and stereotypes: Baltic Region Missionary theatre on the Baltic frontier : negotiating the imagined Jew in the Riga Ludus Prophetarum / Sarit Cofman-Simhon Advocating, converting, and torturing : images of Jews (and Muslimized Pagans) in the Kalanti altarpiece / Elina Räsänen The Teutonic knights and their attitude about Muslims : Saracens in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem and in the Baltic Region / Shlomo Lotan 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 / Jurgita Šiaučiunaitė-Verbickienė Infidel Turks and schismatic Russians in late medieval Livonia / Madis Maasing Index nominum Index locorum.