Chapter 2: Crusade and Conversion after the Fourth Lateran Council (1215): Oliver of Paderborn's and James of Vitry's Missions to Muslims Reconsidered.
Probes the convenient historiographical divides often drawn between crusade and conversion, various missionary and crusading theaters, and pre- and post-mendicant proselytization efforts. Rift between pre-mendicant and mendicant anti-Islamic polemic and missions; Author's attempt to counter the asse...
| Published in: | Essays in Medieval Studies Vol. 21; pp. 23 - 49 |
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West Virginia University Press
2004
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| Summary: | Probes the convenient historiographical divides often drawn between crusade and conversion, various missionary and crusading theaters, and pre- and post-mendicant proselytization efforts. Rift between pre-mendicant and mendicant anti-Islamic polemic and missions; Author's attempt to counter the assertion that pre-mendicant authors worked in isolation to compose works which presented a "wretched tissue of fables," that interest in the reality of Islam would have to await the coming of the friars; Crusade and conversion after the Fourth Lateran Council; Oliver of Paderborn's and James of Vitry's Missions to Muslims; Evidence for continuity between the missionary approaches of monastic writers and Paris masters who worked in networks and the efforts of their mendicant successors. |
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