Minorities in Contact in the Medieval Mediterranean (Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages) (English, French and Latin Edition)

"What is a minority? How did members of minority groups in the medieval Mediterranean world interact with contemporaries belonging to other groups? In what ways did those contacts affect their social positions and identities? The essays collected in this volume approach these questions from a variety of angles, examining polemic, social norms, economic exchange, linguistic transformations, and power dynamics. These essays recast the concept of minority - as a mutable condition rather than a fixed group designation - and explore previously-neglected collective and individual interactions between and among minorities around the medieval Mediterranean basin. Minorities are often defined as such because they were in some way excluded from access to resources or denied participation as a consequence of a group affiliation or facet of their identity. Yet, at times their distinctiveness also lay less in their exclusion than in particular ways of relating to spheres of power, whether political or moral, and in certain dissenting conceptions of the world. Through these contributions we shed light on both the continuities that such interactions displayed across intervals of space and time, and the changes that they underwent in particular locales and historical moments"--Back cover "What is a minority? How did members of minority groups in the medieval Mediterranean world interact with contemporaries belonging to other groups? In what ways did those contacts affect their social positions and identities? The essays collected in this volume approach these questions from a variety of angles, examining polemic, social norms, economic exchange, linguistic transformations, and power dynamics.00These essays recast the concept of minority - as a mutable condition rather than a fixed group designation - and explore previously-neglected collective and individual interactions between and among minorities around the medieval Mediterranean basin. Minorities are often defined as such because they were in some way excluded from access to resources or denied participation as a consequence of a group affiliation or facet of their identity. Yet, at times their distinctiveness also lay less in their exclusion than in particular ways of relating to spheres of power, whether political or moral, and in certain dissenting conceptions of the world. Through these contributions we shed light on both the continuities that such interactions displayed across intervals of space and time, and the changes that they underwent in particular locales and historical moments"-- Site de l'éditeur "What is a minority? How did members of minority groups in the medieval Mediterranean world interact with contemporaries belonging to other groups? In what ways did those contacts affect their social positions and identities? The essays collected in this volume approach these questions from a variety of angles, examining polemic, social norms, economic exchange, linguistic transformations, and power dynamics.00These essays recast the concept of minority - as a mutable condition rather than a fixed group designation - and explore previously-neglected collective and individual interactions between and among minorities around the medieval Mediterranean basin. Minorities are often defined as such because they were in some way excluded from access to resources or denied participation as a consequence of a group affiliation or facet of their identity. Yet, at times their distinctiveness also lay less in their exclusion than in particular ways of relating to spheres of power, whether political or moral, and in certain dissenting conceptions of the world. Through these contributions we shed light on both the continuities that such interactions displayed across intervals of space and time, and the changes that they underwent in particular locales and historical moments"--Back cover Front_Matter Clara Almagro Vidal, Jessica Tearney-Pearce, Luke Yarbrough. Introduction Annliese Nef. Minorities in Contact or Processes of Categorization? Uriel Simonsohn. Women at the Crossroads of Muslim/Non-Muslim Encounters Alexandra Cuffel. Conversion and Religious Polemic between Jews and Christians in Egypt from the Fatimid through the Mamluk Periods Y. Zvi Stampfer. Jewish–Christian Theological Polemic as Reflected in Judaeo-Arabic Biblical Interpretations Barbara Roggema. Polemics between Religious Minorities Jan Vandeburie. Latins and Levantine Christian Minorities after the Fourth Lateran Council (1215) Tamar M. Boyadjian. Lamenting Jerusalem Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala. ‘And the Lord will raise a great emir in a land’ Antonia Bosanquet. Keeping their Place Luke Yarbrough. A Christian Official in the Mamluk State Speaks Alejandro García-Sanjuán. Jews in Government Functions in al-Andalus over the Ṭā’ifa Period Clara Almagro Vidal. More than Meets the Eye Bogdan C. Smarandache. A Reassessment of Frankish Settlement Patterns in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, 493–583 ah/1099–1187 ad Ana Echevarria. Does Cohabitation Produce Convivencia? Maria Filomena Lopes de Barros. Muslims and Jews in Medieval Portugal John Tolan. Conclusion Back_Matter