Conflict and religious conversation in Latin Christendom
Subtitle: studies in honour of Ora Limor
By: edited by Israel Jacob Yuval and Ram Ben-Shalom
Series: Cultural encounters in late antiquity and the Middle Ages -- v. 17; Cultural encounters in late antiquity and the Middle Ages -- v. 17.
Publisher: Brepols
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Turnhout
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9782503535142; 9782503543222
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Judaism; Intellectual life; Interfaith relations; Relations; Christianity; Christianity and other religions; Church history; Middle Ages; History
Description: Classical civilization (and hence contemporary Western culture) had deep roots in Afro-Asiatic cultures, but these influences have been systematically overlooked. This series of monographs and collections of articles addresses the social, religious and cultural interactions between East and West, particularly the alienation between East and West as the two parts of the Roman Empire grew apart from the fourth century onwards. To treat the cultures of Western Europe, Byzantium, and the Muslim East separately, as if too fundamentally disparate for substantive borrowings or syncretism to take place, is a drastic simplification of the cultural and religious encounters between East and West throughout Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 300-316).

English.
Table of contents: title: "There is no hatred in polemics; title: and liberty is granted"; title: Jewish Romans, Christian Romans, and the Post-Roman West: the social correlates of the Contra Iudaeos tradition; title: Ecclesia and synagogue: the changing meanings of a powerful pairing; title: Emicho of Flonheim and the apocalyptic motif in the 1096 massacres: between Paul Alphandéry and Alphonse Dupront; title: 'Ante omnia, fratres carissimi, diligatur Deus, deinde proximus': Herman/Judah's Opusculum de conversione sua re-examined; title: Semantics of Mohammed and Islam in Joachim of Fiore; title: Martyrdom and sexuality: the case of an eleventh-century Piyut for Hanukkah and its visual interpretation in the fifteenth century; title: Polemic and pluralism: the Jewish-Christian debate in Solomon ibn Verga's Shevet Yehudah; title: Christians, Jews, and Hebrew Books in fifteenth-century Sicily: between dialogue and dispute; title: The foundation of Christianity in the historical perceptions of Medieval Jewry as expressed in the anonymous Various elements on the topic of Christian faith (London, BL, MS Addit. 27129, pp. 88b-92a); title: From polemics and apologetics to theology and politics: Alonso de Cartagena and the Conversos within the 'Mystical body'; title: Between Calvinists and Jews in seventeenth-century Amsterdam.