The Religions of the Book
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The Religions of the Book

Christian Perceptions, 1400-1660

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The Religions of the Book

Christian Perceptions, 1400-1660

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This is the first study to explore the relationship between Christianity, Judaism and Islam in the Early Modern period. Contributors debate the complicated terms in which these 'Religions of the Book' interacted. The collection illuminates this area of European culture from the late Middle Ages to the end of the Seventeenth century.

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Yes, you can access The Religions of the Book by M. Dimmock, A. Hadfield, M. Dimmock,A. Hadfield in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & European History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Illustrations
  4. Notes on Contributors
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Chronology
  7. Introduction: The Devil Citing Scripture: Christian Perceptions of the Religions of the Book
  8. 1 Christian Anti-Semitism and Intermedial Experience in Late Medieval England
  9. 2 The Crusade of Varna, 1443–1445: What Motivated the Crusaders?
  10. 3 'A Human Head to the Neck of a Horse': Hybridity, Monstrosity and Early Christian Conceptions of Muhammad and Islam
  11. 4 'Vile Interpretations' and 'Devilish Supplements': Jewish Exegesis and Linguistic Siege in Martin Luther's 'On the Jews and Their Lies' (1543)
  12. 5 "Turks" and "Christians": The Iconography of Possession in the Depiction of the Ottoman-Venetian-Hapsburg Frontiers, 1550–1689
  13. 6 Confounding Babel: The Language of Religion in the English Revolution
  14. 7 'A Parallel Made with the Jewish Sanhedrin': Tolerating Jews and Jewish Precedents in the Early Modern Church and State
  15. 8 Milton among the Muslims
  16. Afterword
  17. Select Bibliography
  18. Index