Abstract
Abstract This study takes into view what medieval German poets from Wolfram von Eschenbach to the anonymous composer (perhaps: Stephan Fridolin) of Fortunatus, that is, from the early thirteenth to the early sixteenth century, had to say about personal contacts with and exchanges between their Christian protagonists and Muslim counterparts (Arabs and/or Persians). Although the public discourse dominated by the Church (Crusades) painted starkly hostile images of the Muslim world, for secular authors there were fairly few reasons, if any at all, to assume or to advocate strong differences between both sides, or to project the Muslim contemporaries as hostile and/or dangerous. This study will show that particularly medieval German authors suggested throughout time that the relationship between Christian knights and others and Arab/Muslim lords could be constructive or even based on friendship.
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