This new volume explores the surprisingly intense and complex
relationships between East and West during the Middle Ages and the
early modern world, combining a large number of critical studies
representing such diverse fields as literary (German, French,
Italian, English, Spanish, and Arabic) and other subdisciplines of
history, religion, anthropology, and linguistics. The differences
between Islam and Christianity erected strong barriers separating
two global cultures, but, as this volume indicates, despite many
attempts to 'Other' the opposing side, the premodern world
experienced an astonishing degree of contacts, meetings, exchanges,
and influences. Scientists, travelers, authors, medical
researchers, chroniclers, diplomats, and merchants criss-crossed
the East and the West, or studied the sources produced by the other
culture for many different reasons. As much as the theoretical
concept of 'Orientalism' has been useful in sensitizing us to the
fundamental tensions and conflicts separating both worlds at least
since the eighteenth century, the premodern world did not quite yet
operate in such an ideological framework. Even though the Crusades
had violently pitted Christians against Muslims, there were
countless contacts and a palpitable curiosity on both sides both
before, during, and after those religious warfares.
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