Ryan Szpiech

Conversion and Narrative

Reading and Religious Authority in Medieval Polemic

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• The Middle Ages Series
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9780812244717
• ISBN-10: 0812244710
• Artikelnr.: 35564991

Autorenporträt

Ryan Szpiech teaches Spanish literature and Jewish studies at the University of Michigan.

Inhaltsangabe

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 the 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