Ecstatic Transformation

Uebel, Michael

doi:10.1007/978-1-137-11140-1

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“…There are a handful of pictures of the Prophet accompanying the widespread written propaganda that denounced him as a reprehensible sectarian and wicked deluder. 98 Anti-Islamic propaganda in the late Middle Ages was given the longest rein when it came to the charge of idolatry. In these representations, Muslims are depicted as heathens par excellence, who are often equated with the Romans and their adoration of idols.…”

Section: The Other and Evilmentioning

confidence: 99%

Saracens

Saurma-Jeltsch

2010

The Medieval History Journal

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In literature and visual arts, the term 'Saracen' characterises all human beings not belonging to the corpus Christianorum. It describes total otherness and changing images of the enemy, even the enemy within one's own society, such as the heretic. Though Saracens are regarded as adversaries, their image remains ambivalent and oscillates between admiration and horror. A wide range of elements of prejudice can be combined to create differing clusters. In contrast to these changing 'images' of Saracens, the persistent use over a long time period of nearly the same stereotypes in the visual arts is astonishing. Within the framework of European art, painters were not interested in portraying Muslims before the fifteenthcentury. So, most pictures show different aspects of an imagined East. This article will discuss various versions of these distinct models of Saracens in late medieval image production in order to present the range of interpretations in the light of the context, patrons and recipients of visual representations.

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Section: The Other and Evilmentioning

confidence: 99%

Saracens

Saurma-Jeltsch

2010

The Medieval History Journal

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“…A commentator on Ludwig von Mises has written that for him ʻuse valuesʼ or economic benefits, being subjective, ʻ…did not allow for the appropriate coordination of individualsʼ actions. Such a measure was only afforded by [competitive] money prices for goods and services.ʼ 15 The second task, as Friedrich Von Hayek wrote in Scientism and the Study of Society is ʻfor human reason rationally to comprehend its own limitationsʼ. These limitations defeat ʻ…the characteristic and ever-recurrent demand for the substitution of in natura calculation [of value] for the ʻartificialʼ calculation in terms of priceʼ.…”

Section: The Economic Value Of Naturementioning

confidence: 99%