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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Main Author: | Szpiech, Ryan |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2013]
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
Series: | Middle Ages series.
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Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
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