Interfaith Relationships and Perceptions of the Other in the Medieval Mediterranean: Essays in Memory of Olivia Remie Constable 1st Edition

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• ISBN 10: 3030839974
• ISBN 13: 9783030839970
• Author:  Sarah Davis-Secord, Belen Vicens, Robin Vose

This book is a collaborative contribution that expands our understanding of how interfaith relations, both real and imagined, developed across medieval Iberia and the Mediterranean. The volume pays homage to the late Olivia Remie Constable’s scholarship and presents innovative, thought-provoking, interdisciplinary investigations of cross-cultural exchange, ranging widely across time and geography. Divided into two parts, “Perceptions of the ‘Other’” and “Interfaith relations,” this volume features scholars engaging with church art, literature, historiography, scientific treatises, and polemics, in order to study how the religious “Other” was depicted to serve different purposes and audiences. There are also microhistories that examine the experiences of individual families, classes, and communities as they interacted with one another in their own specific contexts. Several of these studies draw their source material from church and state archives as well as jurisprudential texts, and span the centuries from the late medieval to early modern periods.

Table of contents:

1. Part I. Perceiving the Other
2. The Four Seas of Medieval Mediterranean Intellectual History
3. Coronidis Loco: On the Meaning of Elephants, from Baghdad to Aachen
4. Martial and Spiritual at San Baudelio de Berlanga
5. Seeing the Substance: Rhetorical Muslims and Christian Holy Objects in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
6. The Perception of the Religious Other in Alonso de Espina’s Fortalitium Fidei: A Tool for Inquisitors?
7. Part II. Interfaith Relationships
8. A Global “Infection” of Judaizing: Investigations of Portuguese New Jews and New Christians in the 1630s and 1640s
9. Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Late Medieval Society: The Case of Ávila
10. Sex, Lies, and Alleged Rape: Scandal and Corruption in Fourteenth-Century Mudéjar Lleida
11. A Tunisian Jurist’s Perspective on Jihād in the Age of the Fondaco
12. The Significance of Morisco Feuding in the Kingdom of Valencia
13. An Incident at Damietta: 1733

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