Minorities in Contact in the Medieval Mediterranean
"What is a minority? How did members of minority groups in the medieval Mediterranean world interact with contemporaries belonging to other groups? In what ways did those contacts affect their social positions and identities? The essays collected in this volume approach these questions from a v...
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Turnhout, Belgium
Brepols
2020
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| Schriftenreihe: | Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "What is a minority? How did members of minority groups in the medieval Mediterranean world interact with contemporaries belonging to other groups? In what ways did those contacts affect their social positions and identities? The essays collected in this volume approach these questions from a variety of angles, examining polemic, social norms, economic exchange, linguistic transformations, and power dynamics. These essays recast the concept of minority — as a mutable condition rather than a fixed group designation — and explore previously-neglected collective and individual interactions between and among minorities around the medieval Mediterranean basin. Minorities are often defined as such because they were in some way excluded from access to resources or denied participation as a consequence of a group affiliation or facet of their identity. Yet, at times their distinctiveness also lay less in their exclusion than in particular ways of relating to spheres of power, whether political or moral, and in certain dissenting conceptions of the world. Through these contributions we shed light on both the continuities that such interactions displayed across intervals of space and time, and the changes that they underwent in particular locales and historical moments."-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Enthält Literaturangaben am Ende jedes Beitrags sowie einen Index auf Seite [379]-388. "In 2015, a workshop convened by Ana Echevarria and Nora Berend atSt Catharine’s College, Cam bridge invited medievalists to discuss contactsbetween religious minorities in the medieval period. [...] Concurrently another workshop, organized at Saint Louis University,Madrid, by Luke Yarbrough, discussed the apparent paradox of religiousalterity and political power in medieval polities. [...] Although those workshops provided the initial impetus for this collection,to which some of the participants have contributed, the concept and rationaleof this volume are new. The contributions of participants in the workshopsare joined here by other specialists who have recently pioneered innovativeapproaches to the topic. The final result provides, we hope, fresh perspectives onhow difference was experienced and managed in the medieval Mediterranean." (Foreword, S. [9]) |
| Beschreibung: | 388 Seiten Illustrationen [1 s/w, 7 Karte s 15,6 x 23,4 cm |
| ISBN: | 9782503587936 |