Dominicans Muslims And Jews In The Medieval Crown Of Aragon

Author : Robin Vose
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0521181496

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Dominicans, Muslims and Jews in the Medieval Crown of Aragon by Robin Vose Pdf

With their active apostolate of preaching and teaching, Dominican friars were important promoters of Latin Christianity in the borderlands of medieval Spain and North Africa. Historians have long assumed that their efforts to convert or persecute non-Christian populations played a major role in worsening relations between Christians, Muslims and Jews in the era of crusade and reconquista. This study sheds light on the topic by setting Dominican participation in celebrated but short-lived projects such as Arabic language studia or anti-Jewish theological disputations alongside day-to-day realities of mendicant life in the medieval Crown of Aragon. From old Catalan centers like Barcelona to newly conquered Valencia and Islamic North Africa, the author shows that Dominican friars were on the whole conservative educators and disciplinarians rather than innovative missionaries - ever concerned to protect the spiritual well-being of the faithful by means of preaching, censorship and maintenance of existing barriers to interfaith communications.

Author : Robin J. E. Vose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0511540957

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Dominicans, Muslims, and Jews in the Medieval Crown of Aragon by Robin J. E. Vose Pdf

Argues that Dominican friars sought to maintain interfaith barriers rather than secure religious conversions on the medieval Iberian frontier.

Author : Susan E. Myers,Steven J. MacMichael
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004113985

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The friars and Jews in the Middle Ages and Renaissance by Susan E. Myers,Steven J. MacMichael Pdf

Historians--some specializing in the Middle Ages, some in religion, and some in a particular European country--describe the major areas scholars are working in with regard to the friars' preaching to and writing about the Jews from the early days of the mendicant order about the turn of the 13th century to the 16th century. Their topics include the.

Author : Thomas W. Barton
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271065762

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Contested Treasure by Thomas W. Barton Pdf

In Contested Treasure, Thomas Barton examines how the Jews in the Crown of Aragon in the twelfth through fourteenth centuries negotiated the overlapping jurisdictions and power relations of local lords and the crown. The thirteenth century was a formative period for the growth of royal bureaucracy and the development of the crown’s legal claims regarding the Jews. While many Jews were under direct royal authority, significant numbers of Jews also lived under nonroyal and seigniorial jurisdiction. Barton argues that royal authority over the Jews (as well as Muslims) was far more modest and contingent on local factors than is usually recognized. Diverse case studies reveal that the monarchy’s Jewish policy emerged slowly, faced considerable resistance, and witnessed limited application within numerous localities under nonroyal control, thus allowing for more highly differentiated local modes of Jewish administration and coexistence. Contested Treasure refines and complicates our portrait of interfaith relations and the limits of royal authority in medieval Spain, and it presents a new approach to the study of ethnoreligious relations and administrative history in medieval European society.

Author : Zulfiqar Ali Shah
Publisher : Claritas Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781800119949

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St. Thomas Aquinas and Muslim Thought by Zulfiqar Ali Shah Pdf

St. Thomas Aquinas, the most known medieval philosophical theologian; the stal- wart of scholasticism; the Doctor of Church; and one of the most influential figures in West- ern Christianity, was greatly influenced by Muslim synthetic thought. The gulf between reason and revelation, faith and philosophy or Jesus and Aristotle were wider in Christianity than in Islam. Aquinas bridged that gap with the help of Mus- lim philosophical thought. This work highlights Aquinas’ intersections with the great Muslim philosophers and their impact upon his personality. Aquinas widely quoted Muslim philosophers and theolo- gians, including Ibn Rushd, Ibn Sina, al-Farabi, al-Ghazali and al-Razi and acted upon their wis- dom in many ways. In the estimation of E. Renan, ”St. Thomas owes practically everything to Averroes.” The likes of A. M. Giochon, David Burrell and John Wippel among others asserted that Aquinas and his teacher Albert the Great were highly indebted to Ibn Sina. Giochon noted that, “Avicenna was not only a source from which they all drew liberally, but one of the principal formative influences on their thought.” He read Latin translations of their works and incorporated many of their ideas, thoughts and arguments into his project. Aquinas’ upbringing in Southern Italy and his geographical and intellectual affinity with Islamic civilisation played a significant role in his intellectual development. His thirteenth century Christendom was fully engaged with Muslims on multiple levels. His greater family was involved with the neighboring Muslims of Lucera and Apulia and in the army of Frederick II. Medieval Christianity’s transition from the Dark Ages was facilitated by Aquinas’ philosophical theology, which was also shaped by the translation of philosophical and scientific manuscripts from Arabic to Latin. Aquinas was what he became partly due to these interfaith interactions, which are laid bare for the first time in this revelatory new book.

Author : Benjamin R. Gampel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107164512

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Anti-Jewish Riots in the Crown of Aragon and the Royal Response, 1391-1392 by Benjamin R. Gampel Pdf

Gampel investigates the anti-Jewish riots in 1391-2 in the lands of Castile and Aragon.

Author : Elena Lourie
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0860782662

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Crusade and Colonisation by Elena Lourie Pdf

The history of the Reconquista - the Christian reconquest of Spain from the Arabs - has proved an increasingly stimulating field of historical research. On the one hand, the struggle forced Spanish society into a mould which then shaped the course of its expansion into the Americas, on the other it gave rise to a unique process of accommodation and acculturation. Dr Lourie here concentrates on the realms of the Crown of Aragon in the 12th-14th centuries. The first articles deal with the evolution of the crusading spirit, with geopolitics, notably the rivalry between Aragon and Castille, and with the progress of Christian colonisation. The next section examines the conflicting demands of ideology, demography and colonisation, and includes one major new study on Christian ambivalence towards the Mudejars, the conquered Muslim population. Dr Lourie seeks to throw this attitude into sharper focus by comparing the Muslim situation with that of the Jews, and it is to the latter and their relations with Christians that her last five articles are devoted.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004379671

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A Companion to Ramon Llull and Llullism by Anonim Pdf

A survey of the work of the Majorcan lay theologian and philosopher Ramon Llull (1232-1316), along with examples of its wide influence in late medieval, Renaissance, and early modern Europe and in colonial Spanish America.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004401792

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Interreligious Encounters in Polemics between Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Iberia and Beyond by Anonim Pdf

This book focuses on polemical religious texts of Iberia’s long fifteenth century, a period characterized by both social violence and cultural exchange. It highlights how polemical texts often reveal the interconnected nature of social and cultural intimacy, promoting dialogue and cultural transfer.

Author : Alex J. Novikoff
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812208634

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The Medieval Culture of Disputation by Alex J. Novikoff Pdf

Scholastic disputation, the formalized procedure of debate in the medieval university, is one of the hallmarks of intellectual life in premodern Europe. Modeled on Socratic and Aristotelian methods of argumentation, this rhetorical style was refined in the monasteries of the early Middle Ages and rose to prominence during the twelfth-century Renaissance. Strict rules governed disputation, and it became the preferred method of teaching within the university curriculum and beyond. In The Medieval Culture of Disputation, Alex J. Novikoff has written the first sustained and comprehensive study of the practice of scholastic disputation and of its formative influence in multiple spheres of cultural life. Using hundreds of published and unpublished sources as his guide, Novikoff traces the evolution of disputation from its ancient origins to its broader impact on the scholastic culture and public sphere of the High Middle Ages. Many examples of medieval disputation are rooted in religious discourse and monastic pedagogy: Augustine's inner spiritual dialogues and Anselm of Bec's use of rational investigation in speculative theology laid the foundations for the medieval contemplative world. The polemical value of disputation was especially exploited in the context of competing Jewish and Christian interpretations of the Bible. Disputation became the hallmark of Christian intellectual attacks against Jews and Judaism, first as a literary genre and then in public debates such as the Talmud Trial of 1240 and the Barcelona Disputation of 1263. As disputation filtered into the public sphere, it also became a key element in iconography, liturgical drama, epistolary writing, debate poetry, musical counterpoint, and polemic. The Medieval Culture of Disputation places the practice and performance of disputation at the nexus of this broader literary and cultural context.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780521622967

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Jewish War under Trajan and Hadrian by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christopher MacEvitt
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812296778

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The Martyrdom of the Franciscans by Christopher MacEvitt Pdf

A study of three hundred years of medieval Franciscan history that focuses on martyrdom While hagiographies tell of Christian martyrs who have died in an astonishing number of ways and places, slain by members of many different groups, martyrdom in a Franciscan context generally meant death at Muslim hands; indeed, in Franciscan discourse, "death by Saracen" came to rival or even surpass other definitions of what made a martyr. The centrality of Islam to Franciscan conceptions of martyrdom becomes even more apparent—and problematic—when we realize that many of the martyr narratives were largely invented. Franciscan authors were free to choose the antagonist they wanted, Christopher MacEvitt observes, and they almost always chose Muslims. However, martyrdom in Franciscan accounts rarely leads to conversion of the infidel, nor is it accompanied, as is so often the case in earlier hagiographical accounts, by any miraculous manifestation. If the importance of preaching to infidels was written into the official Franciscan Rule of Order, the Order did not demonstrate much interest in conversion, and the primary efforts of friars in Muslim lands were devoted to preaching not to the native populations but to the Latin Christians—mercenaries, merchants, and captives—living there. Franciscan attitudes toward conversion and martyrdom changed dramatically in the beginning of the fourteenth century, however, when accounts of the martyrdom of four Franciscans said to have died while preaching in India were written. The speed with which the accounts of their martyrdom spread had less to do with the world beyond Christendom than with ecclesiastical affairs within, MacEvitt contends. The Martyrdom of the Franciscans shows how, for Franciscans, martyrdom accounts could at once offer veiled critique of papal policies toward the Order, a substitute for the rigorous pursuit of poverty, and a symbolic way to overcome Islam by denying Muslims the solace of conversion.

Author : Mark D. Meyerson,Edward D. English
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111599580

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Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Medieval and Early Modern Spain by Mark D. Meyerson,Edward D. English Pdf

The essays in this interdisciplinary volume examine the social and cultural interaction of Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Spain during the medieval and early modern periods. Together, the essays provide a unique comparative perspective on compelling problems of ethnoreligious relations. Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Medieval and Early Modern Spain considers how certain social and political conditions fostered fruitful cultural interchange, while others promoted mutual hostility and aversion. The volume examines the factors that enabled one religious minority to maintain its cultural integrity and identity more effectively than another in the same sociopolitical setting. This volume provides an enriched understanding of how Christians, Muslims, and Jews encountered ideological antagonism and negotiated the theological and social boundaries that separated them.

Author : James Mixson,Bert Roest
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004297524

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A Companion to Observant Reform in the Late Middle Ages and Beyond by James Mixson,Bert Roest Pdf

The Observant reform of the religious orders remains one of the most important yet understudied religious movements of the later Middle Ages. This volume provides scholars with a current, synthetic introduction to the field, and suggests new avenues for future scholarship.

Author : Maya Soifer Irish
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813228655

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Jews and Christians in Medieval Castile by Maya Soifer Irish Pdf

5. Tamquam domino proprio: The Bishop and His Jews in Medieval Palencia -- Part 3. Jews and Christians in Northern Castile (ca. 1250-ca. 1370) -- 6. The Jews of Castile at the End of the Reconquista (Post-1250): Cultural and Communal Life -- 7. Jews, Christians, and Royal Power in Northern Castile -- 8. "Insolent, Wicked People": The Cortes and Anti-Jewish Discourse in Castile -- Bibliography -- Index