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Conversion and narrative : reading and religious authority in Medieval polemic / Ryan Szpiech.

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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...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Szpiech, Ryan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2013.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Middle Ages series.
Subjects:
Apologetics > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Conversion > Christianity > History > To 1500.
Religious biography > History and criticism.
Identification (Religion) > History > To 1500.
Christian converts from Judaism > History.
Jewish converts from Christianity > History.
Muslim converts from Christianity > History.
Christianity and other religions > Judaism.
Christianity and other religions > Islam.
Judaism > Relations > Christianity.
Islam > Relations > Christianity.
Apologetics > Middle Ages.
Christian converts from Judaism.
Christianity.
Conversion > Christianity.
Identification (Religion)
Interfaith relations.
Islam.
Jewish converts from Christianity.
Judaism.
Muslim converts from Christianity.
Religious biography.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780812207613
0812207610
Language:In English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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