Saracens : Islam in the medieval European imagination /
Tolan, John Victor, 1959-
Saracens : Islam in the medieval European imagination / John V. Tolan. - New York : Columbia University Press, ©2002. - 1 online resource (xxiii, 372 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-358) and index.
Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Riccoldo's Predicament, or How to Explain Away the Successes of a Flourishing Rival Civilization; Part One: FOUNDATIONS (SEVENTH-EIGHTH CENTURIES); 1. God and History in the Christian West c. 600; 2. Islamic Dominion and the Religious Other; 3. Early Eastern Christian Reactions to Islam; Part Two: FORGING POLEMICAL IMAGES (EIGHTH-TWELFTH CENTURIES); 4. Western Christian Responses to Islam (Eighth-Ninth Centuries); 5. Saracens as Pagans; 6. Muhammad, Heresiarch (Twelfth Century). Part Three: THIRTEENTH-CENTURY DREAMS OF CONQUEST AND CONVERSION7. The Muslim in the Ideologies of Thirteenth-Century Christian Spain; 8. Apocalyptic Fears and Hopes Inspired by the Thirteenth-Century Crusades; 9. Franciscan Missionaries Seeking the Martyr's Palm; 10. The Dominican Missionary Strategy; 11. From Verdant Grove to Dark Prison: Realms of Mission in Ramon Llull; Conclusion; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index.
In the first century of Islam, most of the former Christian Roman Empire, from Syria to Spain, was brought under Muslim control in a conquest of unprecedented proportions. Confronted by the world of Islam, countless medieval Christians experienced a profound ambivalence, awed by its opulence, they were also troubled by its rival claims to the spiritual inheritance of Abraham and Jesus and humiliated by its social subjugation of non-Muslim minorities. Some converted. Others took up arms. Still others, the subjects of John Tolan's study of anti-Muslim polemics in medieval Europe, undertook.
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22573/ctt2716fn JSTOR 59BAEA02-95FB-4FB1-986F-DD09431CE263 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
Christianity and other religions--Islam.
Islam--Relations--Christianity.
Islam--Historiography.
Middle Ages--Historiography.
Christianisme--Relations--Islam.
Islam--Relations--Christianisme.
Islam--Historiographie.
Moyen Âge--Historiographie.
RELIGION--Christianity--General.
RELIGION--Christian Life--Social Issues.
HISTORY--Medieval.
Christianity
Interfaith relations
Islam
Islam--Historiography
Middle Ages--Historiography
Islam
Christentum
Islambild
Islam.
Beeldvorming.
Europa
Sarazenen.
Electronic books.
BP172 / .T62 2002eb
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Saracens : Islam in the medieval European imagination / John V. Tolan. - New York : Columbia University Press, ©2002. - 1 online resource (xxiii, 372 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-358) and index.
Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Riccoldo's Predicament, or How to Explain Away the Successes of a Flourishing Rival Civilization; Part One: FOUNDATIONS (SEVENTH-EIGHTH CENTURIES); 1. God and History in the Christian West c. 600; 2. Islamic Dominion and the Religious Other; 3. Early Eastern Christian Reactions to Islam; Part Two: FORGING POLEMICAL IMAGES (EIGHTH-TWELFTH CENTURIES); 4. Western Christian Responses to Islam (Eighth-Ninth Centuries); 5. Saracens as Pagans; 6. Muhammad, Heresiarch (Twelfth Century). Part Three: THIRTEENTH-CENTURY DREAMS OF CONQUEST AND CONVERSION7. The Muslim in the Ideologies of Thirteenth-Century Christian Spain; 8. Apocalyptic Fears and Hopes Inspired by the Thirteenth-Century Crusades; 9. Franciscan Missionaries Seeking the Martyr's Palm; 10. The Dominican Missionary Strategy; 11. From Verdant Grove to Dark Prison: Realms of Mission in Ramon Llull; Conclusion; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index.
In the first century of Islam, most of the former Christian Roman Empire, from Syria to Spain, was brought under Muslim control in a conquest of unprecedented proportions. Confronted by the world of Islam, countless medieval Christians experienced a profound ambivalence, awed by its opulence, they were also troubled by its rival claims to the spiritual inheritance of Abraham and Jesus and humiliated by its social subjugation of non-Muslim minorities. Some converted. Others took up arms. Still others, the subjects of John Tolan's study of anti-Muslim polemics in medieval Europe, undertook.
0231506465 9780231506465 0231123337 9780231123334
9780231123334
22573/ctt2716fn JSTOR 59BAEA02-95FB-4FB1-986F-DD09431CE263 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
Christianity and other religions--Islam.
Islam--Relations--Christianity.
Islam--Historiography.
Middle Ages--Historiography.
Christianisme--Relations--Islam.
Islam--Relations--Christianisme.
Islam--Historiographie.
Moyen Âge--Historiographie.
RELIGION--Christianity--General.
RELIGION--Christian Life--Social Issues.
HISTORY--Medieval.
Christianity
Interfaith relations
Islam
Islam--Historiography
Middle Ages--Historiography
Islam
Christentum
Islambild
Islam.
Beeldvorming.
Europa
Sarazenen.
Electronic books.
BP172 / .T62 2002eb
261.2/7