Language:
English
Year of publication:
2018
Titel der Quelle:
Medieval Encounters; Jewish, Christian and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue
Angaben zur Quelle:
24 (2018) 197-225
Keywords:
Jews
;
Jews History 15th century
;
Muslims History
;
Polemics History
;
Judaism Relations To 1500
;
Islam
;
Judaism Relations To 1500
;
Christianity
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism To 1500
;
History
;
Islam Relations To 1500
;
Judaism
;
Arévalo (Spain)
Abstract:
The background to this paper is the difference between occasionally atemporal and multinational approaches and local, historical approaches to religious ideas and encounters. Focuses on the case of two authors from the town Arévalo in 15th-century Castile. The article attempts firstly to identify stylistic, rhetorical, and literary elements in the historiographic traditions about the reputation of the town. Secondly it points to changes in the status of the town in the late Middle Ages that affected Christians, Muslims, and Jews. Thirdly, after identifying certain tendencies in the writings of the two authors, one a Muslim (known as the Mancebo de Arévalo) and the other a Jew, Rabbi Yosef ibn Ṣaddiq de Arévalo, it searches for affinities and common elements in their attitudes.
DOI:
10.1163/15700674-12340021
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