Interfaith Relationships and Perceptions of the Other in the Medieval Mediterranean

Sarah Davis-Secord is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of New Mexico, US.Belen Vicens is Assistant Professor of Medieval History at Salisbury University, Maryland, US.Robin Vose teaches medieval, Islamic and world history at St. Thomas University, Canada.

• 1.Introduction, Robin Vose, Sarah Davis-Secord, and Belen Vicens.- Section I: Perceiving the Other.- 2. The Four Seas of Medieval Mediterranean Intellectual History, Thomas E. Burman.- 3. Coronidis Loco: On the Meaning of Elephants, from Baghdad to Aachen, Paul M. Cobb.- 4. Martial and Spiritual at San Baudelio de Berlanga, Jerrilynn D. Dodds.- 5. Seeing the Substance: Rhetorical Muslims and Christian Holy Objects in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, Ryan Szpiech.- 6.The Perception of the Religious Other in Alonso de Espina’s Fortalitium Fidei: A Tool for Inquisitors? Ana Echevarria .- Section II: Interfaith Relationships.- 7. A Global ‘Infection’ of Judaizing: Investigations of Portuguese New Jews and New Christians in the 1630s and 1640s, Gretchen Starr-LeBeau.- 8.Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Late Medieval Society: The Case of Ávila, Teofilo F. Ruiz.- 9. Sex, Lies, and Alleged Rape: Scandal and Corruption in Fourteenth-Century Mudéjar Lleida, Brian A. Catlos .- 10.A Tunisian Jurist’s Perspective on Jihād in the Age of the Fondaco, Janina M. Safran.- 11.The Significance of Morisco Feuding in the Kingdom of Valencia, Mark D. Meyerson.-12. An Incident at Damietta—1733, Molly Greene.