Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: Mediterranean Perspectives (MEPERS)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Perceiving the Other
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Interfaith Relationships
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About this book
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.
Reviews
Every essay in this volume will become required reading for anyone interested in how Christianity, Islam, and Judaism were formed and transformed bytheir encounters with each other on the waves and shores of the Mediterranean. Both the production of difference and the possibilities of pluralism are illuminated in its pages. This is a collection worthy of the great historian to whom it is dedicated.
David Nirenberg, University of Chicago, and author of Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today.
This jewel of a book is so much more than a scholarly homage to the intellectual legacy of Olivia Remie Constable. Focusing on interfaith relations and cross-cultural exchange, the case studies collected in the volume question the relevance of geographic, temporal, linguistic, and most importantly, disciplinary boundaries, making a compelling case for the continuing vitality of Mediterranean studies and its capacity to transform the entire field of medieval history. Maya Soifer Irish, Rice University, and author of Jews and Christians in Medieval Castile: Tradition, Coexistence,and Change.Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Interfaith Relationships and Perceptions of the Other in the Medieval Mediterranean
Book Subtitle: Essays in Memory of Olivia Remie Constable
Editors: Sarah Davis-Secord, Belen Vicens, Robin Vose
Series Title: Mediterranean Perspectives
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83997-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83996-3Published: 17 December 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83999-4Published: 18 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-83997-0Published: 16 December 2021
Series ISSN: 2731-5592
Series E-ISSN: 2731-5606
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 379
Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Medieval Europe, World History, Global and Transnational History, History of Religion, Cultural History