Michael Frassetto

Christians and Muslims in the Middle Ages (eBook, PDF)

From Muhammad to Dante

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The conflict and contact between Muslims and Christians in the Middle Ages is among the most important but least appreciated developments of the period from the seventh to the fourteenth century. Michael Frassetto argues that the relationship between these two faiths during the Middle Ages was essential to the cultural and religious developments of Christianity and Islam-even as Christians and Muslims often found themselves engaged in violent conflict. Frassetto traces the history of those conflicts and argues that these holy wars helped create the identity that defined the essential characteristics of Christians and Muslims. The polemic works that often accompanied these holy wars was important, Frassetto contends, because by defining the essential evil of the enemy, Christian authors were also defining their own beliefs and practices. Holy war was not the only defining element of the relationship between Christians and Muslims during the Middle Ages, and Frassetto explains that everyday contacts between Christian and Muslim leaders and scholars generated more peaceful relations and shaped the literary, intellectual, and religious culture that defined medieval and even modern Christianity and Islam.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978754126
• Artikelnr.: 74849436

Autorenporträt

Michael Frassetto is an instructor in the Department of History at the University of Delaware.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Enemies, Brothers, Scholars: Christians and Muslims in the
Middle Ages
Chapter 1: Christianity and the Early History of Islam
Chapter 2: Initial Christian Response to the Rise of Islam
Chapter 3: Convivençia: Christians and Muslims in early Medieval Spain
Chapter 4: Islam and the Early Medieval West
Chapter 5: New Beginnings and New Attitudes
Chapter 6: Spain and the Reconquista
Chapter 7: Crusade and Counter-Crusade: Christians and Muslims in an Age of
Holy War
Chapter 8: Islam and the Renaissance of the Twelfth Century
Chapter 9: Christians and Muslims in the Thirteenth Century
Conclusion: Looking Backward and Forward