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How does Christianity explain the existence of the two rival Abrahamic faiths, Judaism and Islam? What place does it allow in Christian society for Jews and Muslims? The responses to these questions are many; this brief article examines a few prominent examples. Rather than a survey of Christians’ attitudes towards Jews (or Judaism) and Muslims (or Islam), it examines how Christian law accommodated Jews and Muslims as residents of Christian societies and at the roles that Christian thinkers assigned to Judaism and Islam in a Christian scheme of history. The emphasis is on a few salient...
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The eleven essays brought together in this volume explore the relations between expulsion, diaspora, and exile between Late Antiquity and the seventeenth century. The essays range from Hellenistic Egypt to seventeenth-century Hungary and involve expulsion and migration of Jews, Muslims and Protestants. The common goal of these essays is to shed light on a certain number of issues: first, to try to understand the dynamics of expulsion, in particular its social and political causes; second, to examine how expelled communities integrate (or not) into their new host societies; and finally, to...
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Up until now, one of the flat miḥrāb-s in the Mosque of Ibn Ṭūlūn in Cairo keeps its mystery. Of its damaged decoration, in all likelihood dating back to the Ṭūlūnid period, only the central motif remains, consisting of a circled star hanging from a chain. This article examines the original significance of this miḥrāb. First, the foundation stele of the mosque provides an epigraphic context characterized by the predominance of an eschatological discourse. From there, I explore several hypotheses by engaging with textual and archaeological traditions relating to the themes of the star and...
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After overviewing primary sources available for tracing pleasure of reading during the Middle Ages (theoretical discourses such as artes poeticae or mediecal treatises, texts themselves, paratexts such as accessus ad auctores, readersʼ responses, and other texts), the study concentrates on biblical exegesis, namely commentaries on two biblical passages, Ezech. 3, 3 and Apoc. 10, 9. They both present an image of eating a book/roll which is sweet in the mouth but turns bitter in the belly. The image troubled some exegetes and led to much varied explanations. As it is argued, the reason for...
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Biografia della beata Elena Valentinis da Udine (+1458), con edizione della sua prima Leggenda in volgare, scritta da Simone da Roma (OSA).
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