Islam and Papal power in late Medieval and early modern Europe: the afterlives of a popular polemic
"Islam and Papal Power in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe traces the influential history of another book: Riccoldo da Montecroce's Contra legem Sarracenorum. Around 1301, a Dominican missionary named Riccoldo da Montecroce wrote a treatise on the Qur'an, arguing against the vali...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2025
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| In: | Year: 2025 |
| Series/Journal: | Studies in Medieval religions and cultures
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| Further subjects: | B
Islam
Relations
Catholic Church
Early works to 1800
B Catholic Church Relations Islam Early works to 1800 B Ricoldo da Montecroce (1242 or 1243-1320) Confutatio Alcorani B Islam Controversial literature Early works to 1800 B Qurʼan Criticism, interpretation, etc Early works to 1800 |
| Summary: | "Islam and Papal Power in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe traces the influential history of another book: Riccoldo da Montecroce's Contra legem Sarracenorum. Around 1301, a Dominican missionary named Riccoldo da Montecroce wrote a treatise on the Qur'an, arguing against the validity of the Muslim faith. Over the next two hundred years, Europeans read, copied, translated, and circulated Riccoldo's work more than any other text on Islam. This study overviews and contextualizes that popularity in order to analyze Christian understandings of Islam in early modern Europe. Analysing the thirty-four surviving manuscript copies, this book studies the way the text was transcribed, the notes that readers made in the margins, and the contexts in which it was copied. Critically, this book also puts the transmission analysis into the broader context of major European historical developments. This context reveals that Contra legem became a tool for Europeans who linked fear of the Ottoman Empire to instability within the Church. Specifically, readers used Riccoldo's descriptions of the dangers of the Qur'an to conflate the Ottoman Empire with a broader Islamic threat to Christian society. Such positioning helped readers to substantiate the divine authority of the western Church - and especially the papacy - as a bulwark against this threat. This book will be of interest to scholars working on interreligious dialogue and Christian-Muslim relations in medieval and early modern Europe and the Mediterranean. It will appeal to historians of religion, scholars of late medieval and early modern thought, and students of pre- and early modern history at the upper undergraduate and graduate levels"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | 212 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 978-1-032-47267-6 978-1-032-47268-3 |
