The Religions of the Book

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Chronology Introduction: The Devil Citing Scripture: Christian Perceptions of the Religions of the Book; M.Dimmock  & A.Hadfield   Christian Antisemitism and Intermedial Experience in Late Medieval England; A.Bale The Crusade of Varna, 1443-1445: What motivated the Crusaders?; C.Imber 'A Human Head to the Neck of a Horse': Hybridity, Monstrosity and Early Christian Conceptions of Muhammad and Islam; M.Dimmock 'Vile Interpretations' and 'Devilish Supplements': Jewish Exegesis and Linguistic Siege in Martin Luther's On the Jews and Their Lies (1543); R.Hallett 'Turks' and 'Christians': The Iconography of Possession in the Depiction of the Ottoman-Venetian-Hapsburg Frontiers, 1550-1689; P.Brummett Confounding Babel: The Language of Religion in the English Revolution; M.Birchwood 'A Parallel Made with the Jewish Sanhedrin': Tolerating Jews and Jewish Precedents in the Early Modern Church and State; E.Glaser Milton Among the Muslims; G.MacLean Afterword; J.Brotton Endnotes Select Bibliography Index