Debating Truth - The Barcelona Disputation of 1263

Informationen zum Autor Nina Caputo is an Associate Professor in the Department of History. She received her B.A. and M.A. from the UCLA, and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Caputo is a scholar of medieval Jewish history and interfaith relations in medieval Europe. She has received fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Judaic Studies, and the American Philosophical Society. Her first book, Nahmanides in Medieval Catalonia: History, Community, Messianism (2007), explores the history of encounters between Jewish and Christian interpretations of history and redemption. She has also co-editied Faithful Narratives: Historians, Religion, and the Challenge of Objectivity (Cornell, 2014) with Dr. Andrea Sterk. She is currently working on a book that uses Petrus Alfonsi to explore the figure of the convert and conversion in the Christian middle ages and a collection of essays. Klappentext A graphic history that uses a theological disputation to explore interfaith relations! the complicated dynamics between Christians and Jews in medieval Spain! and the nature of truth. Zusammenfassung A graphic history that uses a theological disputation to explore interfaith relations, the complicated dynamics between Christians and Jews in medieval Spain, and the nature of truth.

Product details

• Authors: Nina Caputo
• Assisted by: Liz Clarke (Illustration)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.09.2016
• EAN: 9780190226367
• ISBN: 978-0-19-022636-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Graphic History Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Christi Geburt bis 1500 nach Chr., Geschichte der Religion, Bezug zu Juden und jüdischen Gruppen, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Soziale Gruppen: religiöse Gemeinschaften