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Muslims through European eyes in the Middle Ages
1 online resource (xvii, 231 pages :) : illustrations
Antihagiography: Embrico of Mainz's Vita Mahumeti -- A mangled corpse: the polemical dismemberment of Muhammad -- Rhetoric, polemics, and the art of hostile biography: portraying Muhammad in thirteenth-century Christian Spain -- Peter the Venerable on the "diabolical heresy of the Saracens" -- The dream of conversion: baptizing pagan kings in the crusade epics -- Mirror of chivalry: Saladin in the medieval European imagination -- Veneratio Sarracenorum: shared devotion among Muslims and Christians, according to Burchard of Strasbourg, envoy from Frederic Barbarossa to Saladin (c. 1175) -- Saracen philosophers secretly deride Islam -- Walls of hatred and contempt: the anti-Muslim polemics of Pedro Pascual -- A dreadful racket: the clanging of bells and the yowling of muezzins in Iberian interconfessional polemics.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-221) and index.