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  • The Index of Prohibited Books

    Four Centuries of Struggle over Word and Image for the Greater Glory of God

    by Dr Robin Vose ...
    For more than four hundred years, the Catholic Church’s Index Librorum Prohibitorum struck terror into the hearts of authors, publishers and booksellers around the world, while arousing ridicule and contempt from many others, especially those in Protestant and non-Christian circles. Biased, inconsistent and frequently absurd in its attempt to ban objectionable texts of every conceivable ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Interfaith Relationships and Perceptions of the Other in the Medieval Mediterranean

    Essays in Memory of Olivia Remie Constable

    Edited by Sarah Davis-Secord, Belen Vicens, Robin Vose ...
    Series series History (R0)
    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. ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • To Live Like a Moor

    Christian Perceptions of Muslim Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain

    by Olivia Remie Constable, David Nirenberg ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    What do clothing, bathing, or dining habits reveal about one's personal religious beliefs? Nothing, of course, unless such outward bodily concerns are perceived to hold some sort of spiritual significance. Such was the case in the multireligious world of medieval Spain, where the ways in which one dressed, washed, and fed the body were seen as potential indicators of religious affiliation. True ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • To Live Like a Moor

    Christian Perceptions of Muslim Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain

    by Olivia Remie Constable, David Nirenberg ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    What do clothing, bathing, or dining habits reveal about one's personal religious beliefs? Nothing, of course, unless such outward bodily concerns are perceived to hold some sort of spiritual significance. Such was the case in the multireligious world of medieval Spain, where the ways in which one dressed, washed, and fed the body were seen as potential indicators of religious affiliation. True ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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  • Blood and Faith

    The Purging of Muslim Spain

    by Matthew Carr ...
    In April 1609, King Philip III of Spain signed an edict denouncing the Muslim inhabitants of Spain as heretics, traitors, and apostates. Later that year, the entire Muslim population of Spain was given three days to leave Spanish territory, on threat of death.In a brutal and traumatic exodus, entire families and communities were obliged to abandon homes and villages where they had lived for ... Read more

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  • The Wise King

    A Christian Prince, Muslim Spain, and the Birth of the Renaissance

    by Simon R. Doubleday ...
    An illuminating biography of Alfonso X, the 13th-century philosopher-king whose affinity for Islamic culture left an indelible mark on Western civilization"If I had been present at the Creation," the thirteenth-century Spanish philosopher-king Alfonso X is said to have stated, "Many faults in the universe would have been avoided." Known as El Sabio, "the Wise," Alfonso was renowned by friends and ... Read more

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  • Inquisition

    The Reign of Fear

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  • Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain

    by Joseph F. O'Callaghan ...
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    Drawing from both Christian and Islamic sources, Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain demonstrates that the clash of arms between Christians and Muslims in the Iberian peninsula that began in the early eighth century was transformed into a crusade by the papacy during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Successive popes accorded to Christian warriors willing to participate in the peninsular ... Read more

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  • Spain, 1157-1300

    A Partible Inheritance

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  • Spain's Centuries of Crisis

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