The Religions of the Book

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: The Devil Citing Scripture: Christian Perceptions of the Religions of the Book

   • Matthew Dimmock, Andrew Hadfield

   Pages 1-22

3. Christian Anti-Semitism and Intermedial Experience in Late Medieval England

   • Anthony Bale

   Pages 23-44

4. The Crusade of Varna, 1443–1445: What Motivated the Crusaders?

   • Colin Imber

   Pages 45-65

5. ‘A Human Head to the Neck of a Horse’: Hybridity, Monstrosity and Early Christian Conceptions of Muhammad and Islam

   • Matthew Dimmock

   Pages 66-88

6. ‘Vile Interpretations’ and ‘Devilish Supplements’: Jewish Exegesis and Linguistic Siege in Martin Luther’s ‘On the Jews and Their Lies’ (1543)

   • Raphael Hallett

   Pages 89-109

7. “Turks” and “Christians”: The Iconography of Possession in the Depiction of the Ottoman-Venetian-Hapsburg Frontiers, 1550–1689

   • Palmira Brummett

   Pages 110-139

8. Confounding Babel: The Language of Religion in the English Revolution

   • Matthew Birchwood

   Pages 140-158

9. ‘A parallel made with the Jewish Sanhedrin’: Tolerating Jews and Jewish Precedents in the Early Modern Church and State

   • Eliane Glaser

   Pages 159-179

10. Milton among the Muslims

    • Gerald MacLean

    Pages 180-194

11. Afterword

    • Jerry Brotton

    Pages 195-202

12. Back Matter

    Pages 203-213

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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.

• bibliography
• Christianity
• chronology
• crusades
• culture
• early modern period
• England
• Europe
• Islam
• Judaism
• Late Middle Ages
• Middle Ages
• religion
• revolution
• seventeenth century

'...[a] compelling and innovative collection of essays.' - Mark Rankin, Modern Language Review

'...well worth reading...a welcome collection of essays on a diverse range of subjects. The editors are to be congratulated for bringing them all together in this thought provoking publication.' - Insight Turkey

'...[an] insightful collection...' - Theological Book Review

• University of Sussex, UK

  Matthew Dimmock, Andrew Hadfield

ANTHONY BALE is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK MATTHEW BIRCHWOOD is Lecturer in English Literature at Kingston University, London, UK JERRY BROTTON is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, UK PALMIRA BRUMMETT is Professor of History and Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of Tennessee, USA ELIANE GLASER is an honorary research fellow at Birkbeck College, London, UK RAPHAEL HALLETT is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Leeds, UK COLIN IMBER is retired and was until 2005 a Reader in Turkish in the University of Manchester, UK GERALD MACLEAN is currently Professor of English at the University of Exeter, UK

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