Contesting Inter-Religious Conversion in the Medieval World (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Yisraeli, Yosi; Fox, Yaniv

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The compositions of this volume discuss the phenomenon of inter-religious conversion in the Mediterranean and its hinterlands from the seventh to the seventeenth centuries. Taken together, they argue that the cultural and social implications of this phenomenon were mutually recognizable by contemporaries and therefore may be comparatively discussed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317160267
• Artikelnr.: 47387302

Autorenporträt

Yaniv Fox is a senior lecturer of late antique and early medieval history at Bar-Ilan University (Israel), and a member of the I-CORE Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters. Yosi Yisraeli is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Bar-Ilan University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
[Yaniv Fox and Yosi Yisraeli]
1. Conversion as a Historiographical Problem: The Case of Zoraya/Isabel de
Solís
[Ryan Szpiech]
Part I: Regulating Conversion
2. Conversion on Trial: Toleration of Apostasy and the Trial of Three
Converts to Judaism in the Dutch Republic, 1614-5
[Alexander van der Haven ]
3. Anxieties in Conflict: The Ratto of Anna del Monte
[Kenneth Stow]
4. Normative Texts as Sources for Conversion to Christianity in Europe
[Roy Flechner]
5. Royal Policy and Conversion of Jews to Christianity in
Thirteenth-Century Europe
[John Tolan]
Part II: Social Realities of Inter-Religious Conversion
6. The Donor and the Gravedigger: Converts to Judaism in the Cairo Geniza
Documents
[Moshe Yagur]
7. Conversion as an Aspect of Master-Slave Relationship in the Medieval
Egyptian Jewish Community
Craig Perry
8. Returning Apostates and Their Marital Partners in Medieval Ashkenaz
[Ephraim Kanarfogel]
9. Conversion and Return to Judaism in High and Late Medieval Europe:
Christian Perceptions and Portrayals
[Paola Tartakoff]
Part III: Narrating Conversion
10. Conversion from the Worst to the Best: The Relationship between
Medieval Judaism, Islam, and Christianity
[Irven Resnick]
11. The Role of Preaching in the Conversion to Islam
[Linda G. Jones]
12. Between Tyranny and the Commonwealth: Political Discourses and the
Framing of Violence against Conversos in the Gesta Hispaniensia of Alfonso
de Palencia
[Yanay Israeli]
13. Converting Bodies, Embodying Convers