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Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Medieval Mediterranean
Series: - Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, Volume: 110
The burgeoning field of Mediterranean Studies, which favors intersectionality over compartmentalisation, has resulted in fresh ways of understanding pre-modern interreligious relationships. This volume will introduce advanced students and non-specialists to various historical interactions between Christians, Jews, and Muslims within the frame of the “sea at the centre”. Its chronological range is the long central Middle Ages (1000 to 1600 CE), and includes most Mediterranean regions: Iberia, North Africa, the Levant, Asia Minor, the Balkans, Italy, Provence, and the sea itself.
Jessalyn L. Bird, D.Phil. (Oxford), is associate professor of Humanistic Studies at Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN. She has published widely on the crusades, Paris masters, social and legal reforms, and heresy. Her latest book is a co-edited volume, Crusades and Nature: Natural and Supernatural Environments in the Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).
Rita George-Tvrtković, PhD (Notre Dame), is professor of theology at the University of St. Mary of the Lake in Illinois, where she studies medieval Christian-Muslim relations and modern interreligious dialogue. She is author of A Christian Pilgrim in Medieval Iraq: Riccoldo da Montecroce’s Encounter with Islam (Brepols, 2013).
Rita George-Tvrtković, PhD (Notre Dame), is professor of theology at the University of St. Mary of the Lake in Illinois, where she studies medieval Christian-Muslim relations and modern interreligious dialogue. She is author of A Christian Pilgrim in Medieval Iraq: Riccoldo da Montecroce’s Encounter with Islam (Brepols, 2013).
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
A Note on Transliteration
Editors’ Introduction
Rita George-Tvrtković and Jessalynn L. Bird
Part 1 Legislation, Diplomacy, and Peace
1 Law and Social Control: Theory and Practice
John V. Tolan
2 Formalized Communication and Transcultural Entanglements: Christian–Muslim Diplomacy
Nikolas Jaspert
3 Peace and the Powerless: the Jews between Muslims and Crusaders in the Medieval Middle East
Yvonne Friedman
4 The Long Twelfth Century in the History of Peace
Anne Marie Wolf
Part 2 Shared and Contested Spaces
5 Mobility and Migration in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Eric Dursteler
6 Pilgrimage and the Sacred: Convergences and Divergences in the Medieval Mediterranean
Jessalynn L. Bird
7 Monotheistic Environments in the Crusading Near East
Uri Zvi Shachar
8 Agriculture and Field Systems in Medieval Societies in the Iberian Peninsula (8th to 15th Centuries)
Helena Kirchner
9 The Ornaments of a Mediterranean World: Creating a Language of Power in Pre-Modern Spain and Morocco
A.L. Castonguay
10 Religious Otherness in Christian Iconography in the Adriatic Region
Ivana Čapeta Rakić
Part 3 Shared and Contested Texts
11 Homiletic Interactions in the Medieval Mediterranean
Linda G. Jones
12 Interconfessional Polemic, Interconfessional Scholarship: the Case of Ramon Martí as Quran Reader
Thomas E. Burman
13 Christian Sources for the Description of Biblical Texts in Muslim Authors
Lourdes Bonhome-Pulido
14 Figural Readings of Jewish and Muslim Rites: a Christian Debate from the 12th to 14th Centuries
Davide Scotto
15 Shared Storyworlds in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Retellings of the Hebrew Bible in Medieval Iberia
David A. Wacks
16 Afterword: The Middle Way
Ryan Szpiech
Index
Notes on Contributors
A Note on Transliteration
Editors’ Introduction
Rita George-Tvrtković and Jessalynn L. Bird
Part 1 Legislation, Diplomacy, and Peace
1 Law and Social Control: Theory and Practice
John V. Tolan
2 Formalized Communication and Transcultural Entanglements: Christian–Muslim Diplomacy
Nikolas Jaspert
3 Peace and the Powerless: the Jews between Muslims and Crusaders in the Medieval Middle East
Yvonne Friedman
4 The Long Twelfth Century in the History of Peace
Anne Marie Wolf
Part 2 Shared and Contested Spaces
5 Mobility and Migration in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Eric Dursteler
6 Pilgrimage and the Sacred: Convergences and Divergences in the Medieval Mediterranean
Jessalynn L. Bird
7 Monotheistic Environments in the Crusading Near East
Uri Zvi Shachar
8 Agriculture and Field Systems in Medieval Societies in the Iberian Peninsula (8th to 15th Centuries)
Helena Kirchner
9 The Ornaments of a Mediterranean World: Creating a Language of Power in Pre-Modern Spain and Morocco
A.L. Castonguay
10 Religious Otherness in Christian Iconography in the Adriatic Region
Ivana Čapeta Rakić
Part 3 Shared and Contested Texts
11 Homiletic Interactions in the Medieval Mediterranean
Linda G. Jones
12 Interconfessional Polemic, Interconfessional Scholarship: the Case of Ramon Martí as Quran Reader
Thomas E. Burman
13 Christian Sources for the Description of Biblical Texts in Muslim Authors
Lourdes Bonhome-Pulido
14 Figural Readings of Jewish and Muslim Rites: a Christian Debate from the 12th to 14th Centuries
Davide Scotto
15 Shared Storyworlds in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Retellings of the Hebrew Bible in Medieval Iberia
David A. Wacks
16 Afterword: The Middle Way
Ryan Szpiech
Index
Non-specialist professionals and advanced students in theology, intellectual history, and medieval and early modern history.