Gormont et Isembart, fragment de chanson de geste du XIIe siècle by Alphonse Bayot

Would have been unable to complete this book without the generous support I received from the American Historical Association, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American University in Cairo, the University of Wisconsin Institute for Research in the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies. From Verdant Grove to Dark Prison: Realms of Mission in Ramon Llull 256 Conclusion 275 Notes 284 Select Bibliography Index 359 The Dominican Missionary Strategy 233 11. Franciscan Missionaries Seeking the Martyr’s Palm 214 10. Apocalyptic Fears and Hopes Inspired by the Thirteenth-Century Crusades 194 viiĩ. The Muslim in the Ideologies of Thirteenth-Century Christian Spain 174 8. Part Three: Thirteenth-Century Dreams of Conquest and Conversion 171 7. Western Christian Responses to Islam (Eighth–Ninth Centuries) 5. Part Two: Forging Polemical Images (Eighth–Twelfth Centuries) 69 4. Early Eastern Christian Reactions to Islam Islamic Dominion and the Religious Otherģ. Part One: Foundations (Seventh–Eighth Centuries)ġ. This book is dedicated to the memory of my father, Larry TolanĪcknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Introduction: Riccoldo’s Predicament, or How to Explain Away the Successes of a Flourishing Rival Civilization xiii Printed in the United States of America c 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 T  .'-dc Ĭolumbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid-free paper. Includes bibliographical references and index. Islam in the M e d i e va l E u r o p e a n I m a g i n at i o nĬ o lu m b i a U n i v e r s i t y P r e s sĬolumbia University Press Publishers Since 1893 New York Chichester, West Sussex © 2002 Columbia University Press All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Tolan, John Victor, – Saracens : Islam in the medieval European imagination / John V.

Gormont et Isembart, fragment de chanson de geste du XIIe siècle by Alphonse Bayot