Interfaith Relationships and Perceptions of the Other in the Medieval Mediterranean

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.

Uses Iberian archives to illuminate the experience of minority communities Shows how a Mediterranean perspective can change our understanding of the Medieval period Stakes a claim to the Mediterranean as a new arena of intellectual history

Autorentext
Sarah Davis-Secord is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of New Mexico, US. Belen Vicens is Assistant Professor of Medieval History at Salisbury University, Maryland, US. Robin Vose teaches medieval, Islamic and world history at St. Thomas University, Canada.

Inhalt
1.Introduction, Robin Vose, Sarah Davis-Secord, and Belen Vicens.- Section I: Perceiving the Other.- 2. The Four Seas of Medieval Mediterranean Intellectual History, Thomas E. Burman.- 3. Coronidis Loco: On the Meaning of Elephants, from Baghdad to Aachen, Paul M. Cobb.- 4. Martial and Spiritual at San Baudelio de Berlanga, Jerrilynn D. Dodds.- 5. Seeing the Substance: Rhetorical Muslims and Christian Holy Objects in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, Ryan Szpiech.- 6.The Perception of the Religious Other in Alonso de Espina's Fortalitium Fidei : A Tool for Inquisitors? Ana Echevarria .- Section II: Interfaith Relationships.- 7. A Global 'Infection' of Judaizing: Investigations of Portuguese New Jews and New Christians in the 1630s and 1640s, Gretchen Starr-LeBeau.- 8.Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Late Medieval Society: The Case of Ávila, Teofilo F. Ruiz.- 9. Sex, Lies, and Alleged Rape: Scandal and Corruption in Fourteenth-Century Mudéjar Lleida, Brian A. Catlos .- 10.A Tunisian Jurist's Perspective on Jihd in the Age of the Fondaco, Janina M. Safran.- 11.The Significance of Morisco Feuding in the Kingdom of Valencia, Mark D. Meyerson.-12. An Incident at Damietta1733, Molly Greene. <p