Kate Waggoner Karchner is an independent scholar living and working in Ohio. Waggoner Karchner earned her PhD in History with a certificate in Medieval Studies from the University of Michigan in 2019. While there, Waggoner Karchner focused on medieval and early modern European history with an emphasis on religious history and Christian-Muslim relations. Waggoner Karchner’s past publications include “Two New Manuscript Copies of Riccoldo da Montecroce’s Contra legem Sarracenorum” (2019) and “Deciphering the Qur’an in late medieval Europe: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Nicholas of Cusa, and the text-centred development of interreligious dialogue” (2020).

• Introduction: How an Italian Monk Came to Write a Bestselling Book on the Qur’an1. Viral Vitriol: Reading and Reproducing an Anti-Islamic Polemic2. Authority and Authenticity in the Making of an Early Modern Bestseller3. Papal Power: Using Islam to Maintain Control of the Catholic Church4. The Sword and the Pen: European Responses to the Rise of the Ottomans5. Philosophy, Philology, and Polemic during the RenaissanceAfterword. Legacies from Martin Luther to 9/11Appendix A. Contra legem Manuscript Corpus: Descriptions and ObservationsAppendix B. Contents of the Contra legem Manuscript CorpusBibliography

Kate Waggoner Karchner is an independent scholar living and working in Ohio. Waggoner Karchner earned her PhD in History with a certificate in Medieval Studies from the University of Michigan in 2019. While there, Waggoner Karchner focused on medieval and early modern European history with an emphasis on religious history and Christian-Muslim relations. Waggoner Karchner’s past publications include “Two New Manuscript Copies of Riccoldo da Montecroce’s Contra legem Sarracenorum” (2019) and “Deciphering the Qur’an in late medieval Europe: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Nicholas of Cusa, and the text-centred development of interreligious dialogue” (2020).

• Introduction: How an Italian Monk Came to Write a Bestselling Book on the Qur’an1. Viral Vitriol: Reading and Reproducing an Anti-Islamic Polemic2. Authority and Authenticity in the Making of an Early Modern Bestseller3. Papal Power: Using Islam to Maintain Control of the Catholic Church4. The Sword and the Pen: European Responses to the Rise of the Ottomans5. Philosophy, Philology, and Polemic during the RenaissanceAfterword. Legacies from Martin Luther to 9/11Appendix A. Contra legem Manuscript Corpus: Descriptions and ObservationsAppendix B. Contents of the Contra legem Manuscript CorpusBibliography

Kate Waggoner Karchner is an independent scholar living and working in Ohio. Waggoner Karchner earned her PhD in History with a certificate in Medieval Studies from the University of Michigan in 2019. While there, Waggoner Karchner focused on medieval and early modern European history with an emphasis on religious history and Christian-Muslim relations. Waggoner Karchner’s past publications include “Two New Manuscript Copies of Riccoldo da Montecroce’s Contra legem Sarracenorum” (2019) and “Deciphering the Qur’an in late medieval Europe: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Nicholas of Cusa, and the text-centred development of interreligious dialogue” (2020).

• Introduction: How an Italian Monk Came to Write a Bestselling Book on the Qur’an1. Viral Vitriol: Reading and Reproducing an Anti-Islamic Polemic2. Authority and Authenticity in the Making of an Early Modern Bestseller3. Papal Power: Using Islam to Maintain Control of the Catholic Church4. The Sword and the Pen: European Responses to the Rise of the Ottomans5. Philosophy, Philology, and Polemic during the RenaissanceAfterword. Legacies from Martin Luther to 9/11Appendix A. Contra legem Manuscript Corpus: Descriptions and ObservationsAppendix B. Contents of the Contra legem Manuscript CorpusBibliography