Book Description
Introd. in English, main text in English and Latin.
Author : Norman P. Zacour
Publisher : PIMS
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 9780888441003
Introd. in English, main text in English and Latin.
Author : Yosi Yisraeli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 35,80 MB
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1317160266
The Mediterranean and its hinterlands were the scene of intensive and transformative contact between cultures in the Middle Ages. From the seventh to the seventeenth century, the three civilizations into which the region came to be divided geographically – the Islamic Khalifate, the Byzantine Empire, and the Latin West – were busily redefining themselves vis-à-vis one another. Interspersed throughout the region were communities of minorities, such as Christians in Muslim lands, Muslims in Christian lands, heterodoxical sects, pagans, and, of course, Jews. One of the most potent vectors of interaction and influence between these communities in the medieval world was inter-religious conversion: the process whereby groups or individuals formally embraced a new religion. The chapters of this book explore this dynamic: what did it mean to convert to Christianity in seventh-century Ireland? What did it mean to embrace Islam in tenth-century Egypt? Are the two phenomena comparable on a social, cultural, and legal level? The chapters of the book also ask what we are able to learn from our sources, which, at times, provide a very culturally-charged and specific conversion rhetoric. Taken as a whole, the compositions in this volume set out to argue that inter-religious conversion was a process that was recognizable and comparable throughout its geographical and chronological purview.
Author : Jonathan Karp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1927 pages
File Size : 43,53 MB
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1108138217
This seventh volume of The Cambridge History of Judaism provides an authoritative and detailed overview of early modern Jewish history, from 1500 to 1815. The essays, written by an international team of scholars, situate the Jewish experience in relation to the multiple political, intellectual and cultural currents of the period. They also explore and problematize the 'modernization' of world Jewry over this period from a global perspective, covering Jews in the Islamic world and in the Americas, as well as in Europe, with many chapters straddling the conventional lines of division between Sephardic, Ashkenazic, and Mizrahi history. The most up-to-date, comprehensive, and authoritative work in this field currently available, this volume will serve as an essential reference tool and ideal point of entry for advanced students and scholars of early modern Jewish history.
Author : R. H. Helmholz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,30 MB
Release : 2001-08-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 0190286490
This study addresses the ius commune's relation to and influence on English law. Helmholz aims to fill in some of the gaps in scholarship on the common legal past of Western law, the history of the Roman and canon laws, the history of the ecclesiastical courts, parallels between the ius commune and English common law, and English church history.
Author : Jeremy Cohen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 31,59 MB
Release : 1999-11-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520922913
In Living Letters of the Law, Jeremy Cohen investigates the images of Jews and Judaism in the works of medieval Christian theologians from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas. He reveals how—and why—medieval Christianity fashioned a Jew on the basis of its reading of the Bible, and how this hermeneutically crafted Jew assumed distinctive character and power in Christian thought and culture. Augustine's doctrine of Jewish witness, which constructed the Jews so as to mandate their survival in a properly ordered Christian world, is the starting point for this illuminating study. Cohen demonstrates how adaptations of this doctrine reflected change in the self-consciousness of early medieval civilization. After exploring the effect of twelfth-century Europe's encounter with Islam on the value of Augustine's Jewish witnesses, he concludes with a new assessment of the reception of Augustine's ideas among thirteenth-century popes and friars. Consistently linking the medieval idea of the Jew with broader issues of textual criticism, anthropology, and the philosophy of history, this book demonstrates the complex significance of Christianity's "hermeneutical Jew" not only in the history of antisemitism but also in the broad scope of Western intellectual history.
Author : Wouter Druwé
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 837 pages
File Size : 41,33 MB
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9004416528
Based on consilia and decisions, Wouter Druwé studies the multinormative framework on loans and credit in the Golden Ages of Antwerp and Amsterdam (c. 1500-1680). He analyzes the use of a wide variety of legal financial techniques in the Low Countries.
Author : Kenneth R. Stow
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 27,45 MB
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300219040
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Diary -- 2. Crises -- 3. The Roman Ghetto -- 4. The Confessional State -- 5. Conversion and the State -- 6. Under Papal Rule -- 7. Legal Obstacles -- 8. The Jews' Defenders -- 9. Jewish and Christian Awareness -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Glossary -- B -- C -- E -- F -- G -- I -- N -- T -- P -- R -- S -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Author : Dante Fedele
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 25,79 MB
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9004447121
Dante Fedele’s new work of reference reveals the medieval foundations of international law through a comprehensive study of a key figure of late medieval legal scholarship: Baldus de Ubaldis (1327-1400).
Author : Irven M. Resnick
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 41,68 MB
Release : 2012-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0813219698
Through the use of several illustrations from illuminated manuscripts and other media, Resnick engages readers in a discussion of the later medieval notion of Jewish difference.
Author : Kenneth Pennington
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 26,43 MB
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0520913035
The power of the prince versus the rights of his subjects is one of the basic struggles in the history of law and government. In this masterful history of monarchy, conceptions of law, and due process, Kenneth Pennington addresses that struggle and opens an entirely new vista in the study of Western legal tradition. Pennington investigates legal interpretations of the monarch's power from the twelfth to the seventeenth century. Then, tracing the evolution of defendants' rights, he demonstrates that the origins of due process are not rooted in English common law as is generally assumed. It was not a sturdy Anglo-Saxon, but, most probably, a French jurist of the late thirteenth century who wrote, "A man is innocent until proven guilty." This is the first book to examine in detail the origins of our concept of due process. It also reveals a fascinating paradox: while a theory of individual rights was evolving, so, too, was the concept of the prince's "absolute power." Pennington illuminates this paradox with a clarity that will greatly interest students of political theory as well as legal historians.