Interfaith Relationships and Perceptions of the Other in the Medieval Mediterranean : Essays in Memory of Olivia Remie Constable

"This book is a collaborative contribution that expands our understanding of how interfaith relations, both real and imagined, developed across medieval Iberia and the Mediterranean. The volume pays homage to the late Olivia Remie Constable’s scholarship and presents innovative, thought-provoking, interdisciplinary investigations of cross-cultural exchange, ranging widely across time and geography. Divided into two parts, “Perceptions of the ‘Other’” and “Interfaith relations,” this volume features scholars engaging with church art, literature, historiography, scientific treatises, and polemics, in order to study how the religious “Other” was depicted to serve different purposes and audiences. There are also microhistories that examine the experiences of individual families, classes, and communities as they interacted with one another in their own specific contexts. Several of these studies draw their source material from church and state archives as well as jurisprudential texts, and span the centuries from the late medieval to early modern periods." --Publisher's description Contents 7 Notes on Contributors 9 List of Figures 14 Introduction 17 Mediterranean Studies 20 Interfaith Relations and Perceptions in Medieval Iberia 25 A Note on Languages 27 Part I: Perceiving the Other 29 The Four Seas of Medieval Mediterranean Intellectual History 30 Housing the Stranger and Its Many Mediterraneans 30 A Sea of Moving Ideas 33 A Sea of Filtering Frontiers 38 A Sea of Religious and Intellectual Unity 42 A Sea of Difference 47 Conclusion 55 Bibliography 58 Primary Sources 58 Secondary Sources 59 Coronidis Loco: On the Meaning of Elephants, from Baghdad to Aachen 63 Introduction 63 Exhuming Abulabaz 67 Elephants in the ‘Abbasid Court 76 Late Antique Elephants 77 Early Islamic Elephants 79 After Hārūn 80 Conclusions 82 The Nünning-Cohausen Poetic Correspondence on Bones Attributed to Abulabaz 84 Nünning’s Epigram 84 Cohausen’s Response 86 Bibliography 87 Primary Sources 87 Secondary Sources 88 Martial and Spiritual at San Baudelio de Berlanga 92 Renovation of San Baudelio 97 The Lower Paintings at San Baudelio 99 War and Peace in the Duero Basin 123 Restorations 124 Berlanga and Osma 127 Osma and Toledo 129 Bibliography 132 Primary Sources 132 Secondary Sources 133 Seeing the Substance: Rhetorical Muslims and Christian Holy Objects in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries 138 Saracen Plundering and Jewish Host Desecration 144 Hermeneutical Jews and Rhetorical Muslims 152 The Pardoning of Lorenzo Suárez Gallinato 159 Conclusion 167 Bibliography 168 Primary Sources 168 Secondary Sources 169 The Perception of the Religious Other in Alonso de Espina’s Fortalitium Fidei: A Tool for Inquisitors? 174 Manuscripts and Editions: The Fortalitium fidei Travels Around Europe 174 The Waning of the Manuscript Tradition and the Spread of Incunabula 179 The Use of the Fortalitium as an Inquisitorial Manual in Castile 191 Conclusion 203 Appendix: Manuscripts and Incunabula of the Fortalitium fidei 204 Manuscripts 204 Printed Editions 204 Bibliography 205 Primary Sources 205 Secondary Sources 205 Part II: Interfaith Relationships 209 A Global “Infection” of Judaizing: Investigations of Portuguese New Jews and New Christians in the 1630s and 1640s 210 A Global Crisis: The People of the Nation in the Iberian Empires of the 1630s and 1640s 212 A Global Solution: The Holy Office of the Inquisition 225 Bibliography 234 Primary Sources 234 Secondary Sources 235 Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Late Medieval Society: The Case of Ávila 238 Jews and Muslims in Late Medieval Ávila 240 Population and Fiscal Contribution c. 1300: A Sample 241 Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Ávila to 1360 245 Case Studies 247 Jews and Muslims as Economic Actors, 1183–1360 248 Real Estate Transactions 249 Muslims and Jews in the Ávila Documentation to 1360 250 Jews and Muslims as Renters of the Cathedral Chapter’s Property 256 Before the Plague, ca. 1300–1350 257 Towards 1391 259 How Could the Relative Absence of Violence in Ávila Be Explained? 261 Bibliography 263 Primary Sources 263 Secondary Sources 263 Sex, Lies, and Alleged Rape: Scandal and Corruption in Fourteenth-Century Mudéjar Lleida 266 The Abenferres of Lleida 268 More Than a Hint of Scandal 271 A Calm Before the Storm 275 The Aljama in Revolt 279 The Abenferres and their Allies 285 Structural Corruption and the Colonial Elite 287 Bibliography 291 Primary Sources 291 Secondary Sources 292 A Tunisian Jurist’s Perspective on Jihād in the Age of the Fondaco 294 A Fondaco in Tunis 294 Historical Background 300 Al-Burzulı̄ and His Fatāwā 302 The Lesser Harm Is Banished by the Greater 304 Jihād in Times of War and Diplomacy 310 Conclusion 313 Bibliography 314 Primary Sources 314 Secondary Sources 315 The Significance of Morisco Feuding in the Kingdom of Valencia 316 Bibliography 339 Primary Sources 339 Secondary Sources 339 An Incident at Damietta: 1733 341 An Incident at Damietta 350 Egypt’s Ports in Comparative Perspective 362 Conclusion 367 Bibliography 368 Primary Sources 368 Secondary Sources 369 Afterword 372 Publications of Olivia Remie Constable 377 Books 377 Articles in Journals and Chapters in Collected Volumes 377 Index 381