Format:
Online-Ressource (311 p)
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
1283898667
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9781283898669
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9780812207613
Series Statement:
The middle ages series
Content:
Szpiech 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 of ideas in disputational writing.
Content:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Note on Names, Titles, Citations, and Transliteration -- Introduction: Conversion and History -- 1: From Peripety to Prose: Tracing the Pauline and Augustinian Paradigms -- 2: Alterity and Auctoritas: Reason and the Twelfth-Century Expansion of Authority -- 3: In the Shadow of the Khazars: Narrating Conversion to Judaism -- 4: A War of Words: Translating Authority in Thirteenth-Century Polemic -- 5: The Jargon of Authenticity: Abner of Burgos/Alfonso of Valladolid and the Paradox of Testimony -- 6: The Supersessionist Imperative: Islam and the Historical Drama of Revelation -- Conclusion: Polemic as Narrative -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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""Cover ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Dedication Page ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Note on Names, Titles, Citations, and Transliteration ""; ""Introduction: Conversion and History ""; ""1: From Peripety to Prose: Tracing the Pauline and Augustinian Paradigms ""
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""2: Alterity and Auctoritas: Reason and the Twelfth-Century Expansion of Authority """"3: In the Shadow of the Khazars: Narrating Conversion to Judaism ""; ""4: A War of Words: Translating Authority in Thirteenth-Century Polemic ""
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""5: The Jargon of Authenticity: Abner of Burgos/Alfonso of Valladolid and the Paradox of Testimony """"6: The Supersessionist Imperative: Islam and the Historical Drama of Revelation ""; ""Conclusion: Polemic as Narrative ""; ""Abbreviations ""; ""Notes ""; ""Bibliography ""; ""Index ""
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""Acknowledgments ""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1283898438
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780812244717
Additional Edition:
Print version Conversion and Narrative : Reading and Religious Authority in Medieval Polemic
Language:
English
