Scholarship on medieval anti-other imagery has neglected Muslims

Evidence

The portrayal of Muslims in medieval Europe has not received the same attention as that of Jews and heretics in the historiography of the late twentieth century. The existence and development of Jewish and heretical communities posed a number of key political, social, historiographical, and eschatological problems for medieval Latin writers; these problems (and their implications for European social and intellectual history) have been studied and debated in depth and with sophistication: comparative models from other periods of history, from anthropology, and from other disciplines have been put to good use to understand the dynamics of Christian-Jewish and Catholicheretical interactions. The problems posed by Islam have not received the same scrutiny, as if a new revealed religion whose adherents succeeded in dominating most of the formerly Christian world, turning it into a flourishing empire, did not pose problems of the same magnitude. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 1377 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: An established anti-Islamic literature existed in the West by 1350; Scholarship on medieval Islamophobia has lagged behind that on Christian-Jewish and heretic relations — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 1377; European anti-Muslim polemic images persisted virtually unchanged from medieval to modern eras (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Scholarship on medieval Islamophobia has lagged behind that on Christian-Jewish and heretic relations #corroborates (1.00) — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 1377