Turkey and the European Union : Christian and secular images of Islam /
Paul T. Levin.
- xiii, 278 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Introduction and theoretical framework -- Exclusive identities and military defeat: from first encounters to the High Middle Ages (ca. 632-1050) -- Inclusive identities and military expansion: Latin Christendom in The High Middle Ages (ca. 1050-1350) -- Introducting Europe and "the Turk": the Renaissance and the Reformations -- "Mahomet the Imposter": old and new in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European images of Islam -- Turkey and the European Union: the historical legacy and contemporary attitudes -- Competing narratives: images of Turkey in the European Parliament (1996-2010) -- Appendix: political groups in the European Parliament.