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Dominicans, Muslims and Jews in the Medieval Crown of Aragon

Dominicans, Muslims and Jews in the Medieval Crown of Aragon

Vose, Robin

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth, Book 74

Religion General General European History

ISBN10: 0521886430
ISBN13: 9780521886437
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 7 2009
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
With their active apostolate of preaching and teaching, Dominican friars were important promoters of Latin Christianity in the borderlands of medieval Spain and North Africa. Historians have long assumed that their efforts to convert or persecute non-Christian populations played a major role in worsening relations between Christians, Muslims and Jews in the era of crusade and reconquista. This study sheds light on the topic by setting Dominican participation in celebrated but short-lived projects such as Arabic language studia or anti-Jewish theological disputations alongside day-to-day realities of mendicant life in the medieval Crown of Aragon. From old Catalan centers like Barcelona to newly conquered Valencia and Islamic North Africa, the author shows that Dominican friars were on the whole conservative educators and disciplinarians rather than innovative missionaries - ever concerned to protect the spiritual well-being of the faithful by means of preaching, censorship and maintenance of existing barriers to interfaith communications.

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