Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Medieval and Early Modern Spain - Interactionand Cultural Change

This collection spans both the medieval and early modern period, describing the developments and day-to-day realities of relations between Jews, Muslims and Christians in Spain from the 9th to the 16th centuries. The essays discuss the historiography and the issues raised by the constantly shifting balance of ethnoreligious power, intellectual contact between cultures and social identity throughout the Iberian peninsula.

About the author

Mark D. Meyerson is professor of history at the University of Toronto. He is the author of The Muslims of Valencia in the Age of Fernando and Isabel: Between Coexistence and Crusade (1991), Jews in An Iberian Frontier Kingdom (2004), and A Jewish Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Spain (2004).

Edward D. English is executive director of the medieval studies program and adjunct associate professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Reading and Wisdom: The De Doctrina Christiana of Augustine in the Middle Ages (University of Notre Dame Press, 1995).

Summary

Sixteen essays describe relations between Jews, Muslims and Christians in Spain from the 9th to the 16th centuries. They discuss the historiography and the issues raised by the shifting balance of ethnoreligious power, intellectual contact and social identity in the Iberian peninsula.

Product details

• Authors: Mark D. Meyerson
• Assisted by: Edward D. English (Editor), Mark D. Meyerson (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Notre Dame Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.11.1999
• EAN: 9780268022631
• ISBN: 978-0-268-02263-1
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 533 g
• Series: Notre Dame Conferences in Medi; Notre Dame Conferences in Medieval Studies; Notre Dame Conferences in Medieval Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works