Medieval Minorities: Law and Multiconfessional Societies in the Middle Ages (Religion and Law in Medieval Christian and Muslim Societies) (English and French Edition) - Softcover

John Victor Tolan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2503565719 ISBN 13: 9782503565712

Publisher: Brepols Publishers, 2017

Synopsis

The fruit of a sustained and close collaboration between historians, linguists and jurists working on the Christian, Muslim and Jewish societies of the Middle Ages, this book explores the theme of religious coexistence (and the problems it poses) from a resolutely comparative perspective.The authors concentrate on a key aspect of this coexistence: the legal status attributed to Jews and Muslims in Christendom and to dhimm?s in Islamic lands.What are the similarities and differences, from the point of view of the law, between the indigenous religious minority and the foreigner?What specific treatments and procedures in the courtroom were reserved for plaintiffs, defendants or witnesses belonging to religious minorities?What role did the law play in the segregation of religious groups?In limiting, combating, or on the contrary justifying violence against them?Through these questions, and through the innovative comparative method applied to them, this book offers a fresh new synthesis to these questions and a spur to new research.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2503565719
• ISBN 13: 9782503565712
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 454
• Editor: John Victor Tolan, Jerzy Mazur, Capucine Nemo-Pekelman, Nora Berend, Youna Masset