Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Medieval and Early Modern Spain: Interactionand Cultural Change (Notre Dame Conferences in Medieval Studies)

The essays in this interdisciplinary volume examine the social and cultural interaction of Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Spain during the medieval and early modern periods. Together, the essays provide a unique comparative perspective on compelling problems of ethnoreligious relations.

Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Medieval and Early Modern Spain considers how certain social and political conditions fostered fruitful cultural interchange, while others promoted mutual hostility and aversion. The volume examines the factors that enabled one religious minority to maintain its cultural integrity and identity more effectively than another in the same sociopolitical setting.

This volume provides an enriched understanding of how Christians, Muslims, and Jews encountered ideological antagonism and negotiated the theological and social boundaries that separated them.

Mark D. Meyerson is Associate Professor of History and Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto and the author of The Muslims of Valencia in the Age of Fernando and Isabel: Between Coexistence and Crusade (1991).

Edward D. English is Visiting Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of Reading and Wisdom: The De Doctrina Christiana of Augustine in the Middle Ages (University of Notre Dame Press, 1995).