Introduction. Encounters Between East and West in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: Many Untold Stories About Connections and Contacts, Understanding and Misunderstanding. Also an Introduction -- 1. New Voices Reflecting Contacts Between Latin-Europa and the Muslim World -- 2. Xenology and Intercultural Research -- 3. Orientalism, Postcolonial Studies, and the Premodern World -- 4. Economic, Political, and Cultural Connections: Ignored but Significant Features Under the Radar Screen -- 5. Literary Reflections on the Foreign in Medieval Literature -- 6. Arab Writers, Geographers, and Travelers -- 7. St. Francis of Assisi's Attempt to Reach Out to the Saracens: The First Peaceful Missionizing in the Thirteenth Century -- 8. The Christian Perspective: Pilgrimage to the Holy Land A First Step Into a Vast Field -- 9. The Diplomat Pilgrim Bertrandon de la Broquière -- 10. The Helpful Saracen in Margery Kempe's Book: A Mystical Woman's Perception of the Foreign World -- 11. Locations of Contacts Between East and West -- 12. Travel as a Medium of Cultural Contacts -- 13. Curiosity Among Muslim Travelers? -- 14. Jewish Travelers in the Middle Ages -- 15. A Parallel Christian Travel Account and Literary Narrative: Fortunatus -- 16. Jewish Communities in the Diaspora -- 17. Historical Contacts Between East and West -- 18. Rabbi Petachia of Ratisbona -- 19. Additional Jewish Perspectives -- 20. Christian Pilgrim Narratives in the Late Middle Ages -- 21. The Most Astute Observer and Reporter: Felix Fabri -- 22. A Brief Comparison with Giovanni Boccaccio: Decameron -- 23. Trouble and Conflicts: Christian Pilgrims and Muslim Population -- 24. Bernhard von Breydenbach's Peregrinatio -- 25. Other Contacts and Contact Zones -- 26. Europeans and the Ottoman World.

27. Anton von Pforr's German Adaptation of Indian Literature: Cross-Cultural Experiences in the Late Middle Ages -- 28. Origin and Framework of this Volume -- 29. Summaries of the Contributions and Critical Reflections -- 30. Conclusion and Outlook -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Mirrors for Princes in Europe and the Middle East: A Case of Historiographical Incommensurability -- Chapter 2 Reframing the Monstrous: Visions of Desire and a Unified Christendom in the Anglo-Saxon Wonders of the East -- Chapter 3 Byzantium between East and West: Competing Hellenisms in the Alexiad of Anna Komnene and her Contemporaries -- Chapter 4 Franks and Indigenous Communities in Palestine and Syria (1099-1187): A Hierarchical Model of Social Interaction in the Principalities of Outremer -- Chapter 5 A Century of Communication and Acclimatization: Interpreters and Intermediaries in the Kingdom of Jerusalem -- Chapter 6 East Meets West and the Problem with Those Pictures -- Chapter 7 Walther von der Vogelweide and the Middle East: "Holy Land" and the Heathen -- Chapter 8 Wolfram's Islam: The Beliefs of the Muslim Pagans in Parzival and Willehalm -- Chapter 9 Crusading against Barbarians: Muslims as Barbarians in Crusades Era Sources -- Chapter 10 The Encounter with the Foreign in Medieval and Early Modern German Literature: Fictionality as a Springboard for Non-Xenophobic Approaches in the Middle Ages. Herzog Ernst, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Konrad von Würzburg, Die Heidin, and Fortunatus -- Chapter 11 Rūmī's Mathnawī and the Roman de la Rose: The Space of Narrative -- Chapter 12 The Moors in Thirteenth-Century Spain: "They are Us!" -- Chapter 13 The Reorientation of Roger Bacon: Muslims, Mongols, and the Man Who Knew Everything -- Chapter 14 The Exotic and Fabulous East in The Travels of Sir John Mandeville: Understated Authenticity.

Chapter 15 Merveilles du Monde: Marco Millioni, Mirabilia, and the Medieval Imagination, or the Impact of Genre on European Curiositas -- Chapter 16 Embalming and Dissecting the Corpse between East and West: From Ar-Razi to Henry de Mondeville -- Chapter 17 West-östliche Dialoge in der Mörin Hermanns von Sachsenheim (1453) -- Chapter 18 La représentation de l'Orient dans les Essais de Montaigne -- Chapter 19 The Strange Journey of Christian Rosencreutz -- Chapter 20 Producing Yeni Dünya for an Ottoman Readership: The Travels of Ilyas bin Hanna al-Mawsuli in Colonial Latin America, 1675-1683 -- Chapter 21 Orientalism in Early Modern Europe? -- Chapter 22 A Seventeenth-Century French Merchant in the Orient: The Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Tavernier in Les six voyages -- List of Illustrations -- Contributors -- Index.