Maimonides in his world

portrait of a mediterranean thinker

While the great medieval philosopher, theologian, and physician Maimonides is acknowledged as a leading Jewish thinker, his intellectual contacts with his surrounding world are often described as related primarily to Islamic philosophy. "Maimonides in His World" challenges this view by revealing him to have wholeheartedly ...

The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque

Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam

Amid so much twenty-first-century talk of a 'Christian-Muslim divide'-- and the attendant controversy in some Western countries over policies toward minority Muslim communities--a historical fact has gone unnoticed: for more than four hundred years beginning in the mid-seventh century, some 50 percent of the world ...

Maimonides in his world

portrait to a mediterranean thinker

While the great medieval philosopher, theologian, and physician Maimonides is acknowledged as a leading Jewish thinker, his intellectual contacts with his surrounding world are often described as related primarily to Islamic philosophy. Maimonides in His World challenges this view by revealing him to have wholeheartedly ...

Mothers and children

jewish family life in medieval Europe

This book presents a synthetic history of the family - the most basic building block of medieval Jewish communities - in Germany and northern France during the High Middle Ages. Concentrating on the special roles of mothers and children, it also advances recent efforts to write a ...

Living together, living apart

rethinking jewish-christian relations in the Middle Ages

This book challenges the standard conception of the Middle Ages as a time of persecution for Jews. Jonathan Elukin traces the experience of Jews in Europe from late antiquity through the Renaissance and Reformation, revealing how the pluralism of medieval society allowed Jews to feel ...

The handless maiden

moriscos and the politics of religion in Early Modern Spain

The handless maiden

moriscos and the politics of religion in early modern Spain

In 1502, a decade of increasing tension between Muslims and Christians in Spain culminated in a royal decree that Muslims in Castile wanting to remain had to convert to Christianity. Mary Elizabeth Perry uses this event as the starting point for a remarkable exploration of ...

Mothers and children

jewish family life in medieval Europe

This book presents a synthetic history of the family - the most basic building block of medieval Jewish communities - in Germany and northern France during the High Middle Ages. Concentrating on the special roles of mothers and children, it also advances recent efforts to write a ...

A jewish Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Spain