Muslims Under Latin Rule 1100 1300

Author : James M. Powell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400861194

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Muslims Under Latin Rule, 1100-1300 by James M. Powell Pdf

Covering Portugal and Castile in the West to the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in the East, this collection focuses on Muslim minorities living in Christian lands during the high Middle Ages, and examines to what extent notions of religious tolerance influenced Muslim-Christian relations. The authors call into question the applicability of modern ideas of toleration to medieval social relations, investigating the situation instead from the standpoint of human experience within the two religious cultures. Whereas this study offers no evidence of an evolution of coherent policy concerning treatment of minorities in these Christian domains, it does reveal how religious ideas and communitarian traditions worked together to blunt the harsh realities of the relations between victors and vanquished. The chapters in this volume include "The Mudejars of Castile and Portugal in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries" by Joseph F. O'Callaghan, "Muslims in the Thirteenth-Century Realms of Aragon: Interactions and Reaction" by Robert I. Burns, S.J., "The End of Muslim Sicily" by David S. H. Abulafia, "The Subjected Muslims of the Frankish Levant" by Benjamin Z. Kedar, and "The Papacy and the Muslim Frontier" by James M. Powell. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : James M. Powell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0608201421

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Muslims Under Latin Rule, 1100-1300 by James M. Powell Pdf

Covering Portugal and Castile in the West to the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in the East, this collection focuses on Muslim minorities living in Christian lands during the high Middle Ages, and examines to what extent notions of religious tolerance influenced Muslim-Christian relations. The authors call into question the applicability of modern ideas of toleration to medieval social relations, investigating the situation instead from the standpoint of human experience within the two religious cultures. Whereas this study offers no evidence of an evolution of coherent policy concerning treatment of minorities in these Christian domains, it does reveal how religious ideas and communitarian traditions worked together to blunt the harsh realities of the relations between victors and vanquished. The chapters in this volume include The Mudejars of Castile and Portugal in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by Joseph F. O'Callaghan, Muslims in the Thirteenth-Century Realms of Aragon: Interactions and Reaction by Robert I. Burns, S.J., The End of Muslim Sicily by David S. H. Abulafia, The Subjected Muslims of the Frankish Levant by Benjamin Z. Kedar, and The Papacy and the Muslim Frontier by James M. Powell.

Author : Charles L. Tieszen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004192294

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Christian Identity amid Islam in Medieval Spain by Charles L. Tieszen Pdf

In Christian Identity amid Islam in Medieval Spain Charles L. Tieszen explores a small corpus of texts from medieval Spain in an effort to deduce how their authors defined their religious identity in light of Islam, and in turn, how they hoped their readers would distinguish themselves from the Muslims in their midst. It is argued that the use of reflected self-image as a tool for interpreting Christian anti-Muslim polemic allows such texts to be read for the self-image of their authors instead of the image of just those they attacked. As such, polemic becomes a set of borders authors offered to their communities, helping them to successfully navigate inter-religious living.

Author : Dr Alexander Metcalfe,Alex Metcalfe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317829249

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Muslims and Christians in Norman Sicily by Dr Alexander Metcalfe,Alex Metcalfe Pdf

The social and linguistic history of medieval Sicily is both intriguing and complex. Before the Muslim invasion of 827, the islanders spoke dialects of either Greek or Latin or both. On the arrival of the Normans around 1060 Arabic was the dominant language, but by 1250 Sicily was an almost exclusively Christian island, with Romance dialects in evidence everywhere. Of particular importance to the development of Sicily was the formative period of Norman rule (1061 1194), when most of the key transitions from an Arabic-speaking Muslim island to a 'Latin'-speaking Christian one were made. This work sets out the evidence for those changes and provides an authoritative approach that re-defines the conventional thinking on the subject.

Author : Jan van Herwaarden
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004473676

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Between Saint James and Erasmus: Studies in Late-Medieval Religious Life – Devotion and Pilgrimage in the Netherlands by Jan van Herwaarden Pdf

This volume is divided into four sections: late medieval devotion in the Netherlands; medieval Christian pilgrimage; the medieval cult of St. James the Great and Erasmiana. Variety and coherence sound the keynote in the title and the contents of the book. Religious concepts and expressions of religious faith such as pilgrimages and indulgences are representative of late-medieval Christianity. In this book they refer specifically to the medieval cult of St. James the Great, while for Erasmus they were an object of his critical consideration. The whole book can be read in the light of the debate about the tension between an appreciation for outward signs of faith, and the inward experience of religious belief, which Erasmus considered an absolute necessity.

Author : Ann Katherine Isaacs
Publisher : Edizioni Plus
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9788884924988

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Immigration and Emigration in Historical Perspective by Ann Katherine Isaacs Pdf

Author : François Soyer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004162624

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The Persecution of the Jews and Muslims of Portugal by François Soyer Pdf

This book challenges prevalent assumptions concerning the persecution of the Jews and Muslims of Portugal in 1496-7. It pieces together the developments that led to the events of 1496-7 and presents a detailed reconstruction of the persecution itself.

Author : Luigi Andrea Berto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000294255

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Christians under the Crescent and Muslims under the Cross c.630 - 1923 by Luigi Andrea Berto Pdf

This book examines the status that rulers of one faith conferred onto their subjects belonging to a different one, how the rulers handled relationships with them, and the interactions between subjects of the Muslim and Christian religions. The chronological arc of this volume spans from the first conquests by the Arabs in the Near East in the 630s to the exchange between Turkey and Greece, in 1923, of the Orthodox Christians and Muslims residing in their territories. Through organized topics, Berto analyzes both similarities and differences in Christian and Muslim lands and emphasizes how coexistences and conflicts took directions that were not always inevitable. Primary sources are used to examine the mentality of those who composed them and of their audiences. In doing so, the book considers the nuances and all the features of the multifaceted experiences of Christian subjects under Muslim rule and of Muslim subjects under Christian rule. Christians under the Crescent and Muslims under the Cross is the ideal resource for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars interested in the relationships between Christians and Muslims, religious minorities, and the Near East and the Mediterranean from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century.

Author : Brian A. Catlos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521889391

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Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, c.1050–1614 by Brian A. Catlos Pdf

An innovative study which explores how the presence of Muslim communities transformed Europe and stimulated Christian society to define itself.

Author : John Victor Tolan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136697968

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Medieval Christian Perceptions of Islam by John Victor Tolan Pdf

For medieval Christians, Islam presented a series of disquieting challenges, and individual Christians portrayed Muslim culture in varied ways, according to their interests and prejudices. These fifteen original essays focus on unfamiliar texts that reflect the wide range of medieval Christianity's preoccupation with Islam, treating works from many different periods and in a wide range of genres and languages.

Author : Paul M. Cobb
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191625244

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The Race for Paradise by Paul M. Cobb Pdf

In 1099, when the first crusaders arrived triumphant and bloody before the walls of Jerusalem, they carved out a Christian European presence in the Islamic world that remained for centuries, bolstered by subsequent waves of new crusades and pilgrimages. But how did medieval Muslims understand these events? What does an Islamic history of the Crusades look like? The answers may surprise you. In The Race for Paradise, we see medieval Muslims managing this new and long-lived Crusader threat not simply as victims or as victors, but as everything in-between, on all shores of the Muslim Mediterranean, from Spain to Syria. This is not just a straightforward tale of warriors and kings clashing in the Holy Land - of military confrontations and enigmatic heroes such as the great sultan Saladin. What emerges is a more complicated story of border-crossers and turncoats; of embassies and merchants; of scholars and spies, all of them seeking to manage this new threat from the barbarian fringes of their ordered world. When seen from the perspective of medieval Muslims, the Crusades emerge as something altogether different from the high-flying rhetoric of the European chronicles: as a diplomatic chess-game to be mastered, a commercial opportunity to be seized, a cultural encounter shaping Muslim experiences of Europeans until the close of the Middle Ages - and, as so often happened, a political challenge to be exploited by ambitious rulers making canny use of the language of jihad.

Author : Francisco Bethencourt
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691169750

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Racisms by Francisco Bethencourt Pdf

A groundbreaking history of racism Racisms is the first comprehensive history of racism, from the Crusades to the twentieth century. Demonstrating that there is not one continuous tradition of racism, Francisco Bethencourt shows that racism preceded any theories of race and must be viewed within the prism and context of social hierarchies and local conditions. In this richly illustrated book, Bethencourt argues that in its various aspects, all racism has been triggered by political projects monopolizing specific economic and social resources. Racisms focuses on the Western world, but opens comparative views on ethnic discrimination and segregation in Asia and Africa. Bethencourt looks at different forms of racism, and explores instances of enslavement, forced migration, and ethnic cleansing, while analyzing how practices of discrimination and segregation were defended. This is a major interdisciplinary work that moves away from ideas of linear or innate racism and recasts our understanding of interethnic relations.

Author : Stefan K. Stantchev
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191009235

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Spiritual Rationality by Stefan K. Stantchev Pdf

Spiritual Rationality: Papal Embargo as Cultural Practice offers the first book-length study of embargo in a pre-modern period and provides a unique exploration into the domestic implications of this tool of foreign policy. Based on a large and varied body of archival and printed, papal and secular sources, this inquiry covers Europe and the broader Mediterranean from c. 1150 to c. 1550. During this time of an increasing papal role within Christian society, the church employed restrictions on trade with Muslims, pagans, 'heretics', 'schismatics', disobedient Catholic communities and individual Jews in order to facilitate papally-endorsed warfare against external enemies and to discipline internal foes. Various trade bans were originally promulgated as individual responses to specific circumstances. These restrictions, however, were shaped by the premise that sin and the defense of the decorum of the faith and Christendom condoned, or even required, papal intervention into the lives of the laity and by the text-based approach of popes and canonists. Papal embargo, consequently, was not only the sum total of individual trade bans but also a legal and moral discourse that classified exchanges into legitimate and illegitimate ones, compelled merchants to distinguish clearly between themselves as (Roman) Christians and a multitude of others as non-Christians, and helped order symbolically both the relationships between the two groups and those between church and laity. Papal embargo's chief relevance thus lay within Christian society itself, where it functioned as an intangible pastoral staff. While sixteenth-century developments undermined it as a policy tool and a moral discourse alike, papal embargo inscribed the notion of the immorality of trade with the enemy into European thought.

Author : Jonathan Riley-Smith
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000949810

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Crusaders and Settlers in the Latin East by Jonathan Riley-Smith Pdf

The studies here reflect Jonathan Riley-Smith's work as a historian, which began with research on the history of the military orders, the specific focus of the third section here. Out of this grew the concerns covered in the previous sections: an interest in the political and constitutional history of the kingdom of Jerusalem and the relations of the western settlers with the indigenous population of Palestine and Syria; the theory of crusading, involving research on theology and canon law, and the rôle of the popes as preachers, and at the same time detailed consideration of the responses of lay men and women to the ideas that were being presented to them. The two final papers explore some of the implications of crusading ideology and mythology in the modern world.

Author : Daniel G. König
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198737193

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Arabic-Islamic Views of the Latin West by Daniel G. König Pdf

Annotation The author offers an insight into how the Arabic-Islamic world perceived medieval Western Europe, refuting previous claims that the Muslim world regarded Western Europe as a cultural backwater, instead arguing for the presence of cultural and information flows between the two very different societies.