Law and Religious Minorities in Medieval Societies: Between Theory and Praxis/de La Teoria Legal a la Practica En El Derecho de Las Minoria Religiosas ... 9) (English and French and Spanish Edition) - Softcover

Ana Echevarria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2503566944 ISBN 13: 9782503566948

Publisher: Brepols Publishers, 2016

Synopsis

Muslim law developed a clear legal cadre for dhimmis, inferior but protected non-Muslim communities (in particular Jews and Christians) and Roman Canon law decreed a similar status for Jewish and Muslim communities in Europe. Yet the theoretical hierarchies between faithful and infidel were constantly brought into question in the daily interactions between men and women of different faiths in streets, markets, bath-houses, law courts, etc. The twelve essays in this volume explore these tensions and attempts to resolve them. These contributions show law was used to attempt to erect boundaries between communities in order to regulate or restrict interaction between faithful and non-faithful and at the same time how these boundaries were repeatedly transgressed and negotiated. These essays explore the possibilities and the limits of the use of legal sources for the social historian.

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About the Author

Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala (Ph.D., University of Granada) and angel Urban (Ph.D., Complutense University, Madrid) are respectively Professors of Arabic and Greek in the University of Cordoba.

John V. Tolan is Matre de Confrences en histoire medievale, Department d'histoire, Universit de Nantes. He is the author of "Petrus Alfonsi and His Medieval Readers" and editor of "Medieval Christian Perceptions of Islam: A Collection of Essays."

Edition details

• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2503566944
• ISBN 13: 9782503566948
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 239
• Editor: Ana Echevarria, Juan Pedro Monferrer-sala, John Victor Tolan