Toleration and Tolerance in Medieval and Early Modern European Literature

Toleration And Tolerance In Medieval European Literature Aims To Examine And Unearth The Critical Investigations Of Toleration And Tolerance Presented In Literary Texts Of The Middle Ages. In Contrast To Previous Approaches, This Volume Identifies New Methods Of Interpreting Conventional Classifications Of Toleration And Tolerance Through The Emergence Of Multi-level Voices In Literary, Religious, And Philosophical Discourses Of Authorities In Medieval Literature. Accordingly, This Volume Identifies Two Separate Definitions Of Toleration And Tolerance, The Former As A Representative Of A Majority Group Accepts A Member Of The Minority Group But Still Holds Firmly To The Believe That S/he Is Right And The Other Entirely Wrong, And Tolerance Meaning That All Faiths, Convictions, And Ideologies Are Treated Equally, And The Majority Speaker Is Ready To Accept That Potentially His/her Position Is Wrong. Applying These Distinct Differences In The Critical Investigation Of Interaction And Representation In Context, This Book Offers New Insight Into The Tolerant Attitudes Portrayed In Medieval Literature Of Which Regularly Appealed, Influenced And Shaped Popular Opinions Of The Period.-- Allbrecht Classen. Includes Bibliographical References (pages [275]-325) And Index. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Contents 6 Acknowledgments 8 Untitled 160 1 Toleration and Tolerance: An Introduction: Historical, Religious, and Literary Reflections 10 2 History and Theory of Toleration and Tolerance: Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Early Modern Ages: Early Voices, Quiet, and Yet of Great Strength 35 3 Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Encounters with the ‘Others’: Emergence of Toleration and Tolerance in the Early Thirteenth Century? 71 4 A Brief Moment of Truce and Welcome: Friendship between the Muslim and the Christian in Rudolf von Ems’s Der guote Gêrhart 95 5 Reaching Out to the Other Side in Fourteenth- Century Italian Literature: Literary Efforts to Establish Friendship and Tolerant Relationships in Boccaccio’s Decameron 118 6 The Foreign World and the Foreign Religion in Medieval Literature: Experiments in and Strategies with Toleration: A Pan-European Perspective on the ‘Good Heathen’ 146 7 Philosophical and Religious Outreaches to the Other Faiths from the High to the Late Middle Ages: Peter Abelard, Ramon Llull, and Nicholas of Cusa 194 8 Tolerance in the Age of the Protestant Reformation: The Quest for Spiritual Truth beyond the Church: Sebastian Franck and Valentin Weigel 226 Epilogue 278 Bibliography 284 Index 336 MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Contents 6 Acknowledgments 8 Untitled 160 1 Toleration and Tolerance: An Introduction: Historical, Religious, and Literary Reflections 10 2 History and Theory of Toleration and Tolerance: Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Early Modern Ages: Early Voices, Quiet, and Yet of Great Strength 35 3 Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Encounters with the ‘Others’: Emergence of Toleration and Tolerance in the Early Thirteenth Century? 71 4 A Brief Moment of Truce and Welcome: Friendship between the Muslim and the Christian in Rudolf von Ems’s Der guote Gêrhart 95 5 Reaching Out to the Other Side in Fourteenth- Century Italian Literature: Literary Efforts to Establish Friendship and Tolerant Relationships in Boccaccio’s Decameron 118 6 The Foreign World and the Foreign Religion in Medieval Literature: Experiments in and Strategies with Toleration: A Pan-European Perspective on the ‘Good Heathen’ 146 7 Philosophical and Religious Outreaches to the Other Faiths from the High to the Late Middle Ages: Peter Abelard, Ramon Llull, and Nicholas of Cusa 194 8 Tolerance in the Age of the Protestant Reformation: The Quest for Spiritual Truth beyond the Church: Sebastian Franck and Valentin Weigel 226 Epilogue 278 Bibliography 284 Index 336 Cover......Page 1 Half Title......Page 2 Title Page......Page 4 Copyright Page......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgments......Page 8 Untitled......Page 160 1 Toleration and Tolerance: An Introduction: Historical, Religious, and Literary Reflections......Page 10 2 History and Theory of Toleration and Tolerance: Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Early Modern Ages: Early Voices, Quiet, and Yet of Great Strength......Page 35 3 Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Encounters with the ‘Others’: Emergence of Toleration and Tolerance in the Early Thirteenth Century?......Page 71 4 A Brief Moment of Truce and Welcome: Friendship between the Muslim and the Christian in Rudolf von Ems’s Der guote Gêrhart......Page 95 5 Reaching Out to the Other Side in Fourteenth- Century Italian Literature: Literary Efforts to Establish Friendship and Tolerant Relationships in Boccaccio’s Decameron......Page 118 6 The Foreign World and the Foreign Religion in Medieval Literature: Experiments in and Strategies with Toleration: A Pan-European Perspective on the ‘Good Heathen’......Page 146 7 Philosophical and Religious Outreaches to the Other Faiths from the High to the Late Middle Ages: Peter Abelard, Ramon Llull, and Nicholas of Cusa......Page 194 8 Tolerance in the Age of the Protestant Reformation: The Quest for Spiritual Truth beyond the Church: Sebastian Franck and Valentin Weigel......Page 226 Epilogue......Page 278 Bibliography......Page 284 Index......Page 336 "Toleration and Tolerance in Medieval European Literature aims to examine and unearth the critical investigations of toleration and tolerance presented in literary texts of the Middle Ages. In contrast to previous approaches, this volume identifies new methods of interpreting conventional classifications of toleration and tolerance through the emergence of multi-level voices in literary, religious, and philosophical discourses of authorities in medieval literature. Accordingly, this volume identifies two separate definitions of toleration and tolerance, the former as a representative of a majority group accepts a member of the minority group but still holds firmly to the believe that s/he is right and the other entirely wrong, and tolerance meaning that all faiths, convictions, and ideologies are treated equally, and the majority speaker is ready to accept that potentially his/her position is wrong. Applying these distinct differences in the critical investigation of interaction and representation in context, this book offers new insight into the tolerant attitudes portrayed in medieval literature of which regularly appealed, influenced and shaped popular opinions of the period."-- Provided by publisher