Pluralism in the Middle Ages: Hybrid Identities, Conversion, and Mixed Marriages in Medieval Iberia 0415881315, 9780415881319

The challenges of cultural and religious diversity that face European and American societies today are not a new phenome

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Pluralism in the Middle Ages: Hybrid Identities, Conversion, and Mixed Marriages in Medieval Iberia
0415881315, 9780415881319

For seven years, a collaboration between the Institute for Medieval Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the

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Ancient Greeks and Romans often wrote that the best form of government consists of a mixture of monarchy, aristocracy, a

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Medieval science has become an increasingly popular area of academic interest over the past couple of decades, but much

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Literary scholars often avoid the category of the aesthetic in discussions of ethics, believing that purely aesthetic ju

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Medievalists reading and writing about and around authority-related themes lack clear definitions of its actual meanings

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Status and gender are two closely associated concepts within medieval society, which tended to view both notions as bina

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Literary scholars often avoid the category of the aesthetic in discussions of ethics, believing that purely aesthetic ju

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Religious Identities in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages contains eight thought-provoking articles that discuss the f

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The present volume is the result of discussions on the topic of intermarriage during several international conferences s

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This ambitious book presents the most thorough historicist account to date of the development of subjectivity in the med

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