Medieval Christian views of Muslims grew directly out of Isidore’s frameworks

Evidence

While Isidore was compiling and constructing the sophisticated filtering system that generations of Christians would use to help perceive and understand the world around them, at the other end of the once-Roman world, Muhammad and the first generation of Muslims were creating a new religious community that would in time dominate most of that world. In order to understand how medieval Christian writers perceived Muslims, the Christian views of history and religious deviancy epitomized in the works of Isidore must first be understood. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 92

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to how inherited intellectual frameworks shape perception of newcomers — parallel to how classification systems determine what is ‘seen’ in contemporary information theory.