John V. Tolan

Broschiertes Buch

Saracens

Islam in the Medieval European Imagination

Beschreibung

Medieval Christian writers distorted the teachings of Islam and caricatured its believers in a variety of ways. What ideological purposes did these offensive portrayals serve? This book provides a comprehensive study of Christian polemical responses to Islam in the Middle Ages.

Autor

John V. Tolan is Maître de Conférences en histoire medievale, Department d'histoire, Université de Nantes. He is the author of Petrus Alfonsi and His Medieval Readers and editor of Medieval Christian Perceptions of Islam: A Collection of Essays.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 602g
• ISBN-13: 9780231123334
• ISBN-10: 0231123337
• Artikelnr.: 22363185