Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Medieval and Early Modern Spain: Interactionand Cultural Change (Notre Dame Conferences in Medieval Studies) (Notre Dame Conferences in Medieval Studies, 8)

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. Title Page Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Medieval and EarlyModern Spain Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: Christians and Jews in Muslim Spain 1. Muhammad as Antichrist in Ninth-Century Córdoba 2. Reading the Repartimientos: Modeling Settlement in the Wake of Conquest 3. Maimonides and the Spanish Aristotelian School 4: Jewish-Muslim Relations in the Context of Andalusian Emigration PART II: Muslims and Jews in Christian Spain 5. Mudejar Parallel Societies: Anglophone Historiography and Spanish Context, I975-2000 6. Muslim-Jewish Relations in Crusader Majorca in the Thirteenth Century: An Inquiry Based on Patrimony Register 342 7. Religious and Sexual Boundaries in the Medieval Crown of Aragon 8. History and Intertextuality in Late Medieval Spain 9. Undermining the Jewish Sense of Future: Alfonso of Valladolid and the New Christian Missionizing PART III: Conversos 10. Crypto-Jewish Women Facing the Spanish Inquisition: Transmitting Religious Practices, Beliefs, and Attitudes 11. Relations between Conversos and Old Christians in Early Modern Toledo: Some Different Perspectives 13. Conversion and Subversion: Converso Texts in Fifteenth-Century Spain PART IV: Moriscos 13. The Moriscos: Loyal Subjects of His Catholic Majesty Philip III 14. Moriscas and the Limits of Assimilation 15. The Moriscos and Christian Doctrine PART V: Epilogue After I492: Spain as Seen by Non-Spaniards Index The centuries of Iberian religious and cultural cross-pollination have often taken on a mythic, otherworldly glow, but the 16 essays here, revised from presentations at a conference at the University of Notre Dame in February and March 1994, seek to integrate that period, and the experiences associated with and following its end, into the general history of Medieval Europe. They discuss Christians and Jews in Muslim Spain, Muslims and Jews in Christian Spain, Conversos, and Moriscos. They are not indexed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR