Strategies of Medieval Communal Identity: Judaism, Christianity and Islam (Mediaevalia Groningana) - Softcover

Cobb, PM

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9042914920 ISBN 13: 9789042914926

Publisher: Peeters Publishers, 2004

Synopsis

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, their final papers do tend to cohere around some recurrent themes. 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Peeters Publishers
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 9042914920
• ISBN 13: 9789042914926
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200