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Cluny and the Muslims of La Garde-Freinet

Author : Scott G. Bruce
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501700910

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In the summer of 972 a group of Muslim brigands based in the south of France near La Garde-Freinet abducted the abbot of Cluny as he and his entourage crossed the Alps en route from Rome to Burgundy. Ultimately, the abbot was set free, but the audacity of this abduction outraged Christian leaders and galvanized the will of local lords. Shortly thereafter, Count William of Arles marshaled an army and succeeded in wiping out the Muslim stronghold. The monks of Cluny kept this tale alive over the next century. Scott G. Bruce explores the telling and retelling of this story, focusing on the representation of Islam in each account and how that representation changed over time. The culminating figure in this study is Peter the Venerable, one of Europe's leading intellectuals and abbot of Cluny from 1122 to 1156, who commissioned Latin translations of Muslim texts such as the Qur'an. Cluny and the Muslims of La Garde-Freinet provides us with an unparalleled opportunity to examine Christian perceptions of Islam in the Crusading era.

Crescent Over Another Horizon

Author : Maria del Mar Logroño Narbona,Paulo G. Pinto,John Tofik Karam
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781477302293

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Crescent Over Another Horizon by Maria del Mar Logroño Narbona,Paulo G. Pinto,John Tofik Karam Pdf

Muslims have been shaping the Americas and the Caribbean for more than five hundred years, yet this interplay is frequently overlooked or misconstrued. Brimming with revelations that synthesize area and ethnic studies, Crescent over Another Horizon presents a portrait of Islam’s unity as it evolved through plural formulations of identity, power, and belonging. Offering a Latino American perspective on a wider Islamic world, the editors overturn the conventional perception of Muslim communities in the New World, arguing that their characterization as “minorities” obscures the interplay of ethnicity and religion that continues to foster transnational ties. Bringing together studies of Iberian colonists, enslaved Africans, indentured South Asians, migrant Arabs, and Latino and Latin American converts, the volume captures the power-laden processes at work in religious conversion or resistance. Throughout each analysis—spanning times of inquisition, conquest, repressive nationalism, and anti-terror security protocols—the authors offer innovative frameworks to probe the ways in which racialized Islam has facilitated the building of new national identities while fostering a double-edged marginalization. The subjects of the essays transition from imperialism (with studies of morisco converts to Christianity, West African slave uprisings, and Muslim and Hindu South Asian indentured laborers in Dutch Suriname) to the contemporary Muslim presence in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Trinidad, completed by a timely examination of the United States, including Muslim communities in “Hispanicized” South Florida and the agency of Latina conversion. The result is a fresh perspective that opens new horizons for a vibrant range of fields.

Celtic-Norse Relationships in the Irish Sea in the Middle Ages 800-1200

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004255128

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Celtic-Norse Relationships in the Irish Sea in the Middle Ages 800-1200 by Anonim Pdf

This volume contains the proceedings of a conference held in Oslo in late 2005, which brought together scholars working in a wide variety of disciplines from Scandinavia, Great Britain and Ireland. The papers here began as those read at the conference, augmented by two written immediately after by attendees, but have been updated in light of the discussions in Oslo and more recent scholarship. They offer historical, archaeological, art-historical, religious-historical and philological views of the interaction and interdependence of Celtic and Norse populations in the Irish Sea region in the period 800 A.D.-1200 A.D. Contributors are Ian Beuermann, Barbara Crawford, Claire Downham, Fiona Edmonds, Colmán Etchingham, Zanette T. Glørstad, John Hines, Alan Lane, Julie Lund, Jan Erik Rekdal and David Wyatt.

Christians and Muslims in the Middle Ages

Author : Michael Frassetto
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498577571

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Christians and Muslims in the Middle Ages by Michael Frassetto Pdf

The conflict and contact between Muslims and Christians in the Middle Ages is among the most important but least appreciated developments of the period from the seventh to the fourteenth century. Michael Frassetto argues that the relationship between these two faiths during the Middle Ages was essential to the cultural and religious developments of Christianity and Islam—even as Christians and Muslims often found themselves engaged in violent conflict. Frassetto traces the history of those conflicts and argues that these holy wars helped create the identity that defined the essential characteristics of Christians and Muslims. The polemic works that often accompanied these holy wars was important, Frassetto contends, because by defining the essential evil of the enemy, Christian authors were also defining their own beliefs and practices. Holy war was not the only defining element of the relationship between Christians and Muslims during the Middle Ages, and Frassetto explains that everyday contacts between Christian and Muslim leaders and scholars generated more peaceful relations and shaped the literary, intellectual, and religious culture that defined medieval and even modern Christianity and Islam.

Medieval Latin Lives of Muhammad

Author : Julian Yolles,Jessica Weiss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ISBN : 0674980735

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Medieval Latin Lives of Muhammad by Julian Yolles,Jessica Weiss Pdf

History of Muhammad -- Tultusceptru / from the Book of Lord Metobius -- Chronicle of Theophanes / Anastasius the Librarian -- Life of Muhammad / Embrico of Mainz -- Poeteic pastimes on Muhammad / Walter of Compiegne -- LIfe of Muhammad / Adelphus -- Apology of al-Kindi / Book of Nicholas -- Where Wicked Muhammad came from

The Apple of His Eye

Author : William Chester Jordan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691210414

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The thirteenth century brought new urgency to Catholic efforts to convert non-Christians, and no Catholic ruler was more dedicated to this undertaking than King Louis IX of France. His military expeditions against Islam are well documented, but there was also a peaceful side to his encounter with the Muslim world, one that has received little attention until now. This splendid book shines new light on the king’s program to induce Muslims—the “apple of his eye”—to voluntarily convert to Christianity and resettle in France. It recovers a forgotten but important episode in the history of the Crusades while providing a rare window into the fraught experiences of the converts themselves. William Chester Jordan transforms our understanding of medieval Christian-Muslim relations by telling the stories of the Muslims who came to France to live as Christians. Under what circumstances did they willingly convert? How successfully did they assimilate into French society? What forms of resistance did they employ? In examining questions like these, Jordan weaves a richly detailed portrait of a dazzling yet violent age whose lessons still resonate today. Until now, scholars have dismissed historical accounts of the king’s peaceful conversion of Muslims as hagiographical and therefore untrustworthy. Jordan takes these narratives seriously—and uncovers archival evidence to back them up. He brings his findings marvelously to life in this succinct and compelling book, setting them in the context of the Seventh Crusade and the universalizing Catholic impulse to convert the world.

A History of the Church in the Middle Ages

Author : F Donald Logan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134786695

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A History of the Church in the Middle Ages by F Donald Logan Pdf

In this fascinating survey, F. Donald Logan introduces the reader to the Christian church, from the conversion of the Celtic and Germanic peoples through to the discovery of the New World.

Why Europe?

Author : Michael Mitterauer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226532387

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Why Europe? by Michael Mitterauer Pdf

Why did capitalism and colonialism arise in Europe and not elsewhere? Why were parliamentarian and democratic forms of government founded there? What factors led to Europe’s unique position in shaping the world? Thoroughly researched and persuasively argued, Why Europe? tackles these classic questions with illuminating results. Michael Mitterauer traces the roots of Europe’s singularity to the medieval era, specifically to developments in agriculture. While most historians have located the beginning of Europe’s special path in the rise of state power in the modern era, Mitterauer establishes its origins in rye and oats. These new crops played a decisive role in remaking the European family, he contends, spurring the rise of individualism and softening the constraints of patriarchy. Mitterauer reaches these conclusions by comparing Europe with other cultures, especially China and the Islamic world, while surveying the most important characteristics of European society as they took shape from the decline of the Roman empire to the invention of the printing press. Along the way, Why Europe? offers up a dazzling series of novel hypotheses to explain the unique evolution of European culture.

A Companion to the Abbey of Cluny in the Middle Ages

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004499232

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A Companion to the Abbey of Cluny in the Middle Ages by Anonim Pdf

"Founded in 910 by Duke William of Aquitaine, the abbey of Cluny rose to prominence in the eleventh century as the most influential and opulent center for monastic devotion in medieval Europe. While the twelfth century brought challenges, both internal and external, the Cluniacs showed remarkable adaptability in the changing religious climate of the high Middle Ages. Written by international experts representing a range of academic disciplines, the contributions to this volume examine the rich textual and material sources for Cluny's history, offering not only a thorough introduction to the distinctive character of Cluniac monasticism in the Middle Ages, but also the lineaments of a detailed research agenda for the next generation of historians. Contributors are: Isabelle Rosé, Steven Vanderputten, Marc Saurette, Denyse Riche, Susan Boynton, Anne Baud, Sébastien Barret, Robert Berkhofer III, Isabelle Cochelin, Michael Hänchen, Gert Melville, Eliana Magnani, Constance Bouchard, Benjamin Pohl, and Scott G. Bruce"--

The Royal Abbey of Reading

Author : Ron Baxter
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781783270842

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The Royal Abbey of Reading by Ron Baxter Pdf

First full-length survey of Reading Abbey, one of the most important ecclesiastical buildings of the Middle Ages.

Writings Against the Saracens

Author : Peter (the Venerable),Peter the Venerable
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813228594

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Peter the Venerable's extensive literary legacy includes poems, a large epistolary collection, and polemical treatises. The first of his four major polemics targeted a Christian heresy, the Petrobrussians (Against the Petrobrusians); the rest took aim at Jews and Saracens. Catholic University of America Press has published his Against the Inveterate Obduracy of the Jews. This present volume will make available in their entirety Peter the Venerable's twin polemics against Islam - A Summary of the entire heresy of the Saracens and Against the sect of the Saracens - as well as related correspondence. These works resulted from a sustained engagement with Islam begun during Peter's journey to Spain in 1142-43. There the abbot commissioned a translation of sources from the Arabic, the so-called Toledan Collection, that include the Letter of a Saracen with a Christian Response (from the Apology of [Ps.] Al-Kindi ); Fables of the Saracens (a potpourri of Islamic hadith traditions); and Robert of Ketton's first Latin translation of the whole of the Qur'an. Thanks to Peter's efforts, from the second half of the twelfth century Christians could acquire a far better understanding of the teachings of Islam, and Peter may rightly be viewed as the initiator of Islamic studies in the West.

Muslims of Medieval Italy

Author : Alex Metcalfe
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780748688432

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Muslims of Medieval Italy by Alex Metcalfe Pdf

A general historical introduction to the Muslims of Medieval Italy which presents specific information regarding social, religious, administrative, political, cultural, artistic and intellectual questions.

Vikings in the South

Author : Ann Christys
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474213776

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Vikings in the South by Ann Christys Pdf

In the ninth century, Vikings carried out raids on the Christian north and Muslim south of the Iberian peninsula (modern Spain and Portugal), going on to attack North Africa, southern Francia and Italy and perhaps sailing as far as Byzantium. A century later, Vikings killed a bishop of Santiago de Compostela and harried the coasts of al-Andalus. Most of the raids after this date were small in scale, but several heroes of the Old Norse sagas were said to have raided in the peninsula. These Vikings have been only a footnote to the history of the Viking Age. Many stories about their activities survive only in elaborate versions written centuries after the event, and in Arabic. This book reconsiders the Arabic material as part of a dossier that also includes Latin chronicles and charters as well as archaeological and place-name evidence. Arabic authors and their Latin contemporaries remembered Vikings in Iberia in surprisingly similar ways. How they did so sheds light on contemporary responses to Vikings throughout the medieval world.

Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association

Author : Geoffrey D. Dunn,Darius von Guttner Sporzynski
Publisher : The Australian Early Medieval Association Inc.
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association by Geoffrey D. Dunn,Darius von Guttner Sporzynski Pdf

The journal welcomes papers on historical, literary, archaeological, cultural, and artistic themes, particularly interdisciplinary papers and those that make an innovative and significant contribution to the understanding of the early medieval world and stimulate further discussion. For submission details please see the association website: www.aema.net.au. Submissions then may be sent to [email protected].

The Crusades and the Expansion of Catholic Christendom, 1000-1714

Author : John France
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134196173

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The Crusades and the Expansion of Catholic Christendom, 1000-1714 by John France Pdf

The Crusades and the Expansion of Catholic Christendom, 1000-1714 is a fascinating and accessible survey that places the medieval Crusades in their European context, and examines, for the first time, their impact on European expansion. Taking a unique approach that focuses on the motivation behind the Crusades, John France chronologically examines the whole crusading movement, from the development of a ‘crusading impulse’ in the eleventh century through to an examination of the relationship between the Crusades and the imperialist imperatives of the early modern period. France provides a detailed examination of the first Crusade, the expansion and climax of crusading during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and the failure and fragmentation of such practices in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Concluding with an assessment of the influence of the Crusades across history, and replete with illustrations, maps, timelines, guides for further reading, and a detailed list of rulers across Europe and the Muslim world, this study provides students with an essential guide to a central aspect of medieval history.