Kenneth Baxter Wolf
Biographic Data
| ID | 3676362 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth Baxter Wolf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth Baxter |
| FAMILY NAME | Wolf |
| SIGNATURE | WOLF K B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pomona College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Eulogius and Islam
Myth, history, and the origins of al-Andalus
This essay juxtaposes two recent efforts to demythologize the history of the origins of al-Andalus. Alejandro García Sanjuán has called into question the continued usefulness of reconquista as a historical model, while Emilio González Ferrín has gone further, challenging the very notion of an “Islamic conquest,” which he regards as another misleading holdover from the past. Considering these two approaches side by side allows for a deeper appreci…
Convivencia in Medieval Spain
Convivencia refers to the 'coexistence' of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish communities in medieval Spain and by extension the cultural interaction and exchange fostered by such proximity. The term first appeared as part of a controversial thesis about Spanish historical identity advanced by Américo Castro in 1948. Since then interest in the idea of convivencia has spread, fueled in part by increased attention to multi-culturalism and rising concern…
The Franciscans in the Middle Ages . Michael Robson
Christians in al-Andalus (711-1000) . Ann Christys
The Poverty of Riches
The unusually high regard with which Saint Francis of Assisi is held has served to insulate him from any real criticism of the kind of sanctity that he embodied: a sanctity based, first and foremost, on his deliberate pursuit of poverty. This book offers a critique of Francis's “holy poverty” by considering its ironic relationship to the ordinary poverty of the poor. While Francis's emphasis on voluntary poverty as the first step toward spiritual…
Las Antigüedades de Hispania. Helena de Carlos Villamarín
Chronica Naierensis. Juan A. Estévez Sola
Making History
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Las "Estorias" de Alfonso el Sabio. Inés Fernández-Ordóñez
La Aljama Sarracena de Huesca en el Siglo XIV. M. Blanca Basáñez Villaluenga
Crusade and narrative
Historiographical studies of the histories of the First Crusade have focused more on establishing the relationship between the extant texts than on the narrative structures adopted by their authors. In the case of the anonymous Gesta Francorum, the author's decision, first of all, to depict the expedition as a pilgrimage, and second, to cast Bohemond as its protagonist meant that he had to explain away the Norman leader's refusal to respect his o…
The Earliest Spanish Christian Views of Islam
Twenty-five years ago, in the first of three now well-known lectures, R. W. Southern noted the "extremely slow penetration of Islam as an intellectually identifiable fact in Western minds." Southern attributed this delay to the distance that separated Latin Christians from the Muslims. In the case of the northern Europeans, this distance was physical. After Poitiers, the military threat posed by Islam receded and assumed its place as only one amo…
Convivencia in Medieval Spain
Convivencia refers to the 'coexistence' of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish communities in medieval Spain and by extension the cultural interaction and exchange fostered by such proximity. The term first appeared as part of a controversial thesis about Spanish historical identity advanced by Américo Castro in 1948. Since then interest in the idea of convivencia has spread, fueled in part by increased attention to multi-culturalism and rising concern…
Crusade and narrative
Historiographical studies of the histories of the First Crusade have focused more on establishing the relationship between the extant texts than on the narrative structures adopted by their authors. In the case of the anonymous Gesta Francorum, the author's decision, first of all, to depict the expedition as a pilgrimage, and second, to cast Bohemond as its protagonist meant that he had to explain away the Norman leader's refusal to respect his o…
The Earliest Spanish Christian Views of Islam
Twenty-five years ago, in the first of three now well-known lectures, R. W. Southern noted the "extremely slow penetration of Islam as an intellectually identifiable fact in Western minds." Southern attributed this delay to the distance that separated Latin Christians from the Muslims. In the case of the northern Europeans, this distance was physical. After Poitiers, the military threat posed by Islam receded and assumed its place as only one amo…
The Earliest Spanish Christian Views of Islam
Twenty-five years ago, in the first of three now well-known lectures, R. W. Southern noted the "extremely slow penetration of Islam as an intellectually identifiable fact in Western minds." Southern attributed this delay to the distance that separated Latin Christians from the Muslims. In the case of the northern Europeans, this distance was physical. After Poitiers, the military threat posed by Islam receded and assumed its place as only one amo…
Crusade and narrative
Historiographical studies of the histories of the First Crusade have focused more on establishing the relationship between the extant texts than on the narrative structures adopted by their authors. In the case of the anonymous Gesta Francorum, the author's decision, first of all, to depict the expedition as a pilgrimage, and second, to cast Bohemond as its protagonist meant that he had to explain away the Norman leader's refusal to respect his o…
La Aljama Sarracena de Huesca en el Siglo XIV. M. Blanca Basáñez Villaluenga
Las "Estorias" de Alfonso el Sabio. Inés Fernández-Ordóñez
Making History
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Las Antigüedades de Hispania. Helena de Carlos Villamarín
Chronica Naierensis. Juan A. Estévez Sola
The Poverty of Riches
The unusually high regard with which Saint Francis of Assisi is held has served to insulate him from any real criticism of the kind of sanctity that he embodied: a sanctity based, first and foremost, on his deliberate pursuit of poverty. This book offers a critique of Francis's “holy poverty” by considering its ironic relationship to the ordinary poverty of the poor. While Francis's emphasis on voluntary poverty as the first step toward spiritual…
Christians in al-Andalus (711-1000) . Ann Christys
The Franciscans in the Middle Ages . Michael Robson
Convivencia in Medieval Spain
Convivencia refers to the 'coexistence' of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish communities in medieval Spain and by extension the cultural interaction and exchange fostered by such proximity. The term first appeared as part of a controversial thesis about Spanish historical identity advanced by Américo Castro in 1948. Since then interest in the idea of convivencia has spread, fueled in part by increased attention to multi-culturalism and rising concern…
Myth, history, and the origins of al-Andalus
This essay juxtaposes two recent efforts to demythologize the history of the origins of al-Andalus. Alejandro García Sanjuán has called into question the continued usefulness of reconquista as a historical model, while Emilio González Ferrín has gone further, challenging the very notion of an “Islamic conquest,” which he regards as another misleading holdover from the past. Considering these two approaches side by side allows for a deeper appreci…
Eulogius and Islam
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