Conversion and Narrative

Reading and Religious Authority in Medieval Polemic

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ID19934362
AuthorsRyan Szpiech (0000-0001-8922-4550, corresponding author)
Year2013
Pages328
Publication date2013-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueConversion and Narrative (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Pennsylvania Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.9783/9780812207613
OpenAlexW2255444953
Open LibraryOL25339710M
ISBN9780812207613
LanguageEN
Citations received19

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

Art · Drama · Index (typography) · Islam · Jargon · Judaism · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Psychoanalysis · Reading (process) · Revelation · Shadow (psychology) · Sociology · Theology · Transliteration · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Byzantine Studies and History · Christian Theology and Mission · Classics · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Society, and Development · 600-1500 · Apologetics · Apologetics, middle ages · Christian converts from judaism · Christianity · Christianity and other religions · Christianity and other religions, judaism · Conversion · History and criticism · Identification (Religion) · Jewish converts from christianity · Middle Ages, 600-1500 · Muslim converts from Christianity · Relations · Religious biography · To 1500

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