Preface xi
Abbreviations xiii
Contributors xv
Introduction xix

Part I. Western Depictions of Saracens and Others in Latin and French Vernacular Writing

Tolerated Otherness:
The ‘Unconverted’ Saracen in the Chansons de geste
Marianne Ailes 3

Love in a Hot Climate:
Gender Relations in Florent et Octavien
Helen J. Nicholson 21

‘Pagans’ and ‘Others’ in the Chanson de J?rusalem
Susan B. Edgington 37

Crusaders in a Hall of Mirrors:
The Portrayal of Saracens in Robert the Monk’s Historia Iherosolimitana
Carol Sweetenham 49

Translation, Citation, and Ridicule:
Renart the Fox and Crusading in the Vernacular
Sarah Lambert 65

Part II. Relations between the West and Byzantium

Eyeing up Eunuchs:
Western Perceptions of Byzantine Cultural Difference
Shaun Tougher 87

Collusion with the Infidel as a Pretext for Western Military Action Against Byzantium (1180–1204)
Jonathan Harris 99

Greeks and Latins at the Time of the Fourth Crusade:
Patriarch John X Kamateros and a Troubadour Tenso
Linda Paterson 119

Greeks and Franks After the Fourth Crusade:
Identity in the Chronicle of Morea
Teresa Shawcross 141

‘Catholics’ in the Byzantine Political Elite:
The Case of Demetrius Kydones
Judith R. Ryder 159

Part III. Western Confrontation with Islam and Judaism in Iberia and the East

Mamluks and Crusaders: Architectural Appropriation and Cultural Encounter in Mamluk Monuments
Karen Rose Mathews 177

Modes of Literary Behaviour in Christian-Islamic Encounters in the Iberian Peninsula: Pseudo-Turpin versus Peter the Venerable
Matthias M. Tischler 201

Rodrigo Jim?nez de Rada and his Historia Arabum:
An Extraordinary Example of Inter-cultural Tolerance?
Matthias Maser 223

Integration or Exclusion of Judaism in the Later Middle Ages?
The Apologetic Strategies of Ram?n Llull
Wolfram Drews 239

Select Bibliography 255
Index 281