Fear and Loathing in the North: Jews and Muslims in Medieval Scandinavia and the Baltic Region

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. Edited By Cordelia Hess And Jonathan Adams. Papers Presented At A Conference Held In Stockholm, 10-11 June, 2013. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.