Western views of Islam in Medieval and early modern Europe

Introduction--David R. Blanks and Michael Frassetto * Western Views of Islam in the Pre-Modern Period: A Brief History of Past Approaches--David R. Blanks * Popular Attitudes Toward Islam in Medieval Europe--Jo Ann Hoeppner Moran Cruz * The Image of the Saracen as Heretic in the Sermons of Ademar of Chabannes--Michael Frassetto * Muslims as Pagan Idolaters in Chronicles of the First Crusade--John V. Tolan * The Essential Enemy: The Muslim as Adversary and Subject in the Law and Literature of the Medieval Crown of Aragon--Donald J. Kagay * Arabs and Latins in the Middle Ages: Enemies, Partners, and Scholars--Alauddin Samarrai * Islam in the Glossia Ordinaria--Ernest Kaulbach * "Seven trewe bataylis for Jesus sake:" The Long-Suffering Saracen Palomides--Nina Dulin-Mallory * Noble Saracen or Muslim Enemy? The Changing Image of the Saracen in Late Medieval Italian Literature--Gloria Allaire * "New Barbarian" or Worthy Adversary? Humanist Constructs of the Ottoman Turks in Fifteenth-Century Italy--Nancy Bisaha * Early Modern Orientalism: The Representation of Islam in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Europe--Daniel J. Vitkus.