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Author Fox, Yaniv

Title Contesting Inter-Religious Conversion in the Medieval World
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (285 pages)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Conversion as a historiographical problem: The case of Zoraya/Isabel de SolĂ­s; PART I Regulating conversion; 2 Conversion on trial: Toleration of apostasy and the trial of three converts to Judaism in the Dutch Republic, 1614-1615; 3 Anxieties in conflict: The Ratto of Anna del Monte; 4 Normative texts as sources for conversion to Christianity in Europe; 5 Royal policy and conversion of Jews to Christianity in thirteenth-century Europe; PART II Social realities of inter-religious conversion
6 The donor and the gravedigger: Converts to Judaism in the Cairo Geniza documents7 Conversion as an aspect of master-slave relationships in the medieval Egyptian Jewish community; 8 Returning apostates and their marital partners in medieval Ashkenaz; 9 Conversion and return to Judaism in high and late medieval Europe: Christian perceptions and portrayals; PART III Narrating conversion; 10 Conversion from the worst to the best: The relationship between medieval Judaism, Islam, and Christianity; 11 The role of preaching in the conversion to Islam
12 Between tyranny and the commonwealth: Political discourses and the framing of violence against conversos in the Gesta Hispaniensia of Alfonso de Palencia13 Converting bodies, embodying conversion: The production of religious identities in late medieval and early modern Europe; Contributors; Index
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Subject Conversion.
Religions -- Relations -- To 1500
Religious minorities.
Conversion
Interfaith relations
Religions
Religious minorities
Form Electronic book
Author Yisraeli, Yosi
ISBN 9781317160274
1317160274