Contesting Inter-Religious Conversion in the Medieval World

ISBN-13: 9780367881665 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 276 str.

Yosi Yisraeli; Yaniv Fox

Opis

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 discus

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.