Conversion and narrative : reading and religious authority in Medieval polemic / Ryan Szpiech.

Conversion and narrative : reading and religious authority in Medieval polemic /

The author 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...

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Main Author: Szpiech, Ryan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Middle Ages series.
Subjects:
Apologetics > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Conversion > Christianity > History > To 1500.
Religious biography > History and criticism.
Identification (Religion) > History > To 1500.
Christian converts from Judaism > History.
Jewish converts from Christianity > History.
Muslim converts from Christianity > History.
Christianity and other religions > Judaism.
Christianity and other religions > Islam.
Judaism > Relations > Christianity.
Islam > Relations > Christianity.
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