Contesting inter-religious conversion in the medieval world. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Yaniv Fox, Yosi Yisraeli.
• Authors: Fox, Yaniv, 1975-; Yisraeli, Yosi
• Contents: 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 Conversion: The Production of Religious Identities in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe [Henriette-Rika Benveniste and Giorgos Plakotos]
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 204.2; Conversion -- History -- to 1500; Religions -- Relations -- History -- To 1500; Religious minorities; Mediterranean Region -- Religion; Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 1500
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781317160267; 9781317160274; 9781317160250; 9781315574028
• Related ISBNs: 9781472480675
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