Turkey and the European Union: Christian and secular images of Islam

This book carefully examines the historical roots of contemporary Western prejudices against both Muslims and Turks, and presents an original theory of collective identity as dramatic re-enactment as a means of understanding the remarkable persistence of medieval stereotypes. PAUL T. LEVIN is Program Director for Governance and Management Training and Assistant Professor of International Relations at Stockholm University. INDICE: Studying Narrative Identities in History: Theory and Method - Exclusive Identities and Military Defeat: From First Encounters to the High MiddleAges (c. 632-1050) - Inclusive Identities and Military Expansion: Latin Christendom in The High Middle Ages (c. 1050-1350) - 'Europe' and 'the Turk': The Renaissance and the Reformation - 'Mahomet the Imposter''': Old and New in 17thand 18th-century European Images of Islam - 'The Cruel Turk' and EUtopia - Conclusion: Historical Legacies and Imagining Alternatives - Appendix: Party Groups in the European Parliament

• ISBN: 978-0-230-10461-7
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 292
• Fecha Publicación: 22/07/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés