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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Szpiech, Ryan
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]
Édition:1st ed.
Collection:Middle Ages series.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Note on Names, Titles, Citations, and Transliteration
  • Introduction
  • From Peripety to Prose
  • Alterity and Auctoritas
  • In the Shadow of the Khazars
  • A War of Words
  • The Jargon of Authenticity
  • The Supersessionist Imperative
  • Conclusion
  • Abbreviations.