Screen LibraryConversion and narrative : reading and religious authority in medieval polemic /
Szpiech draws on medieval Christian, Jewish, and Muslim polemics to investigate the role of narrative in the representation of conversion. By investigating conversion not as individual experience but as expression of communal visions of history, he shows how the narratives dramatize the conflict of...
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2013] ©2013 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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The middle ages series
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| Summary: |
Szpiech draws on medieval Christian, Jewish, and Muslim polemics to investigate the role of narrative in the representation of conversion. By investigating conversion not as individual experience but as expression of communal visions of history, he shows how the narratives dramatize the conflict of ideas in disputational writing. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (328 pages) : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9780812207613 |
| Index Number: | BT1117 |
| CLC: | B975 |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Names, Titles, Citations, and Transliteration -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. From Peripety to Prose -- Chapter 2. Alterity and Auctoritas -- Chapter 3. In the Shadow of the Khazars -- Chapter 4. A War of Words -- Chapter 5. The Jargon of Authenticity -- Chapter 6. The Supersessionist Imperative -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |