Research Catalog

Title

Strategies of medieval communal identity : Judaism, Christianity and Islam / edited by Wout J. van Bekkum and Paul M. Cobb.

Publication

Paris ; Dudley, MA : Peeters, 2004.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

x, 186 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"The leading theme of this collection of essays and studies is the diversity of aspects of medieval communal identity. While the authors were selected for the very diversity of their interests, all of the studies in this volume touch upon one or more of the complex issues that lie at the heart of religious identity in the Middle Ages. They do so through concrete study of the very real practices by which medieval Jews, Christians and Muslims could police the perimeters of their spiritual communities. The authors were especially urged to note instances where religious identity was shaped without reference to dogmas, creeds, or sacred law. In no case are any of these papers satisfied with normative, legal definitions of Jew, Christian, or Muslim in medieval times. Sometimes small and subtle, sometimes explicit, dire, and violent, the techniques that emerge from these studies testify to the diversity of strategies of medieval communal identity over space and their changes over time."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Mediaevalia Groningana ; new ser., v. 5

Uniform Title

Mediaevalia Groningana new ser., v. 5.

Subject

• To 1789
• Identification (Religion) > History > To 1500 > Congresses
• Church history > Middle Ages, 600-1500 > Congresses
• Islam > Europe > History > To 1500 > Congresses
• Inquisition > Congresses
• Judaism > History > Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789 > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-180) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : strategies of medieval communal identity / Wout J. van Bekkum and Paul M. Cobb -- The multiplicity, duality, and unity of heresies / John B. Henderson -- Canonization in early Islam : reception of the 'Uthmanic codex in the Arabic linguistic tradition / Monique P.L.M. Bernards -- Prelude to the Inquisition : the discourse of persecution, the Toledan Rebellion of 1449, and the contest for orthodoxy / Dayle Seidenspinner-Nunez -- The moral imperative in contemporary Islamic movements : an early expression in the structure of al-Ma'mun's Inquisition (Mihna), 833 C.E. / John A. Nawas -- The Inquisition in its own words : Portuguese auto-da-fe sermons as historical sources / Robin J. Vose -- Discipline, inquisition, and the mentality of the inquisitor / Christine E. Caldwell -- Medieval Franciscan mission : history and concept / Bert Roest.

ISBN

9042914920

LCCN

^^2004050119

OCLC

• 55220027
• SCSB-10859413

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library