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

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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. Contents Notes on Contributors List of Figures Introduction Mediterranean Studies Interfaith Relations and Perceptions in Medieval Iberia A Note on Languages Part I: Perceiving the Other The Four Seas of Medieval Mediterranean Intellectual History Housing the Stranger and Its Many Mediterraneans A Sea of Moving Ideas A Sea of Filtering Frontiers A Sea of Religious and Intellectual Unity A Sea of Difference Conclusion Bibliography Primary Sources Secondary Sources Coronidis Loco: On the Meaning of Elephants, from Baghdad to Aachen Introduction Exhuming Abulabaz Elephants in the ‘Abbasid Court Late Antique Elephants Early Islamic Elephants After Hārūn Conclusions The Nünning-Cohausen Poetic Correspondence on Bones Attributed to Abulabaz Nünning’s Epigram Cohausen’s Response Bibliography Primary Sources Secondary Sources Martial and Spiritual at San Baudelio de Berlanga Renovation of San Baudelio The Lower Paintings at San Baudelio War and Peace in the Duero Basin Restorations Berlanga and Osma Osma and Toledo Bibliography Primary Sources Secondary Sources Seeing the Substance: Rhetorical Muslims and Christian Holy Objects in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries Saracen Plundering and Jewish Host Desecration Hermeneutical Jews and Rhetorical Muslims The Pardoning of Lorenzo Suárez Gallinato Conclusion Bibliography Primary Sources Secondary Sources The Perception of the Religious Other in Alonso de Espina’s Fortalitium Fidei: A Tool for Inquisitors? Manuscripts and Editions: The Fortalitium fidei Travels Around Europe The Waning of the Manuscript Tradition and the Spread of Incunabula The Use of the Fortalitium as an Inquisitorial Manual in Castile Conclusion Appendix: Manuscripts and Incunabula of the Fortalitium fidei Manuscripts Printed Editions Bibliography Primary Sources Secondary Sources Part II: Interfaith Relationships A Global “Infection” of Judaizing: Investigations of Portuguese New Jews and New Christians in the 1630s and 1640s A Global Crisis: The People of the Nation in the Iberian Empires of the 1630s and 1640s A Global Solution: The Holy Office of the Inquisition Bibliography Primary Sources Secondary Sources Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Late Medieval Society: The Case of Ávila Jews and Muslims in Late Medieval Ávila Population and Fiscal Contribution c. 1300: A Sample Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Ávila to 1360 Case Studies Jews and Muslims as Economic Actors, 1183–1360 Real Estate Transactions Muslims and Jews in the Ávila Documentation to 1360 Jews and Muslims as Renters of the Cathedral Chapter’s Property Before the Plague, ca. 1300–1350 Towards 1391 How Could the Relative Absence of Violence in Ávila Be Explained? Bibliography Primary Sources Secondary Sources Sex, Lies, and Alleged Rape: Scandal and Corruption in Fourteenth-Century Mudéjar Lleida The Abenferres of Lleida More Than a Hint of Scandal A Calm Before the Storm The Aljama in Revolt The Abenferres and their Allies Structural Corruption and the Colonial Elite Bibliography Primary Sources Secondary Sources A Tunisian Jurist’s Perspective on Jihād in the Age of the Fondaco A Fondaco in Tunis Historical Background Al-Burzulı̄ and His Fatāwā The Lesser Harm Is Banished by the Greater Jihād in Times of War and Diplomacy Conclusion Bibliography Primary Sources Secondary Sources The Significance of Morisco Feuding in the Kingdom of Valencia Bibliography Primary Sources Secondary Sources An Incident at Damietta: 1733 An Incident at Damietta Egypt’s Ports in Comparative Perspective Conclusion Bibliography Primary Sources Secondary Sources Afterword Publications of Olivia Remie Constable Books Articles in Journals and Chapters in Collected Volumes Index