Saracens: Islam in the Medieval European Imagination

Introduction: Riccoldo's Predicament or, How to Explain Away the Successes of a Flourishing Rival Civilization Part 1: Foundations (Seventh--Eighth Centuries) 1: God and History in the Christian West c. 600 2: Islamic Dominion and the Religious Other 3: Early Eastern Christian Reactions to Islam Part 2: Forging Polemical Images (Eighth-Twelfth Centuries) 4: Western Christian Responses to Islam (Eighth-Ninth Centuries) 5: Saracens as Pagans 6: Muhammad, Heresiarch (Twelfth Century) Part 3: Thirteenth-Century Dreams of Conquest and Conversion 7: The Muslim in the Ideologies of Thirteenth-Century Christian Spain 8: Apocalyptic Fears and Hopes Inspired by the Thirteenth-Century Crusades 9: Franciscan Missionaries Seeking the Martyr's Palm 10: The Dominican Missionary Strategy 11: From Verdant Grove to Dark Prison: Realms of Mission in Ramon Llull