Table of Contents: History of Toleration and Tolerance: I: Toleration and Tolerance: An Introduction Historical, Religious, and Literary Reflections II: History and Theory of Toleration and Tolerance: Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Early Modern Ages: Early Voices, Quiet and yet of Great Strength III: Wolfram von Eschenbach's Encounters with the Others Emergence of Toleration and Tolerance in the Early Thirteenth Century? IV: A Brief Moment of Truce and Welcome: Friendship Between the Muslim and the Christian in Rudolf von Ems's Der guote Gêrhart V: Reaching out to the Other Side in Fourteenth-Century Italian Literature: Literary Efforts to Establish Friendship and Tolerant Relationships in Boccaccio's Decameron VI: The Foreign World and the Foreign Religion in Medieval Literature Experiments in and Strategies with Toleration A Pan-European Perspective on the 'Good Heathen' VII: Philosophical and Religious Outreaches to the Other Faiths from the High to the Late Middle Ages: Peter Abelard, Ramon Llull, and Nicholas of Cusa, VIII: Tolerance in the Age of the Protestant Reformation The Quest for Spiritual Truth Beyond the Church Sebastian Franck and Valentin Weigel IX: Epilogue Bibliography Index.