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MEDV 1080 Module Reading List

 

GENERAL AND REFERENCE WORKS

Marcus Bull, Thinking Medieval: An Introduction to the Study of the Middle Ages (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) [A good introduction to Medieval Studies as a subject although it does not focus specifically on religion.]

Judaism

• *Robert Chazan, The Jews of medieval western Christendom ISBN: 0521616646 (pbk.) : £17.99; 9780521846660 (hbk.) : £45.00; 0521846668 (hbk.) : £45.00; 9780521616645 (pbk.) : £17.99 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
• *Mark R. Cohen, Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994)
• Jonathan Elukin, Living together, living apart : rethinking Jewish-Christian relations in the Middle Ages ISBN: 0691114870 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9780691114873 (hardcover : alk. paper) (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007)
• David J. Goldberg and John D. Rayner, The Jewish People: Their History and Their Religion (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1989)
• Nicholas de Lange, Atlas of the Jewish world ISBN: 0714823244 (Oxford: Phaidon, 1984)
• Nicholas de Lange, Judaism ISBN: 0199252971 (pbk. : alk. paper), 2nd edn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)
• Nicholas de Lange, An Introduction to Judaism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)
• Brian Lancaster, The elements of Judaism ISBN: 1852304022 (pbk.) : $8.95 (Shaftesbury: Element, 1993)
• Norman Roth, Daily life of the Jews in the Middle Ages ISBN: 031332865X (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2005)
• Norman Roth, ed., Medieval Jewish civilization : an encyclopedia ISBN: 0415937124 (New York: Routledge, 2002)
• Fred Skolnik, ed., Encyclopaedia Judaica. ISBN: 0028659287 (set hardcover : alk. paper); 0028659295 (vol. 1 hardcover : alk. paper); 0028659309 (vol. 2 hardcover : alk. paper); 0028659317 (vol. 3 hardcover : alk. paper); 0028659325 (vol. 4 hardcover : alk. paper); 0028659333 (vol. 5 hardcover : alk. paper); 0028659341 (vol. 6 hardcover : alk. paper); 002865935X (vol. 7 hardcover : alk. paper); 0028659368 (vol. 8 hardcover : alk. paper); 0028659376 (vol. 9 hardcover : alk. paper); 0028659384 (vol. 10 hardcover : alk. paper); 0028659392 (vol. 11 hardcover : alk. paper); 0028659406 (vol. 12 hardcover : alk. paper); 0028659414 (vol. 13 hardcover : alk. paper); 0028659422 (vol. 14 hardcover : alk. paper); 0028659430 (vol. 15 : alk. paper); 0028659449 (vol. 16 : alk. paper); 0028659457 (vol. 17 : alk. paper); 0028659465 (vol. 18 : alk. paper); 0028659473 (vol. 19 : alk. paper); 0028659481 (vol. 20 : alk. paper); 002865949X (vol. 21 : alk. paper); 0028659503 (vol. 22 : alk. paper)., 25 vols (Detroit, MI: Macmillan, 2007)
• Theodore Steinberg, Jews and Judaism in the Middle Ages ISBN: 9780275985882 (alk. paper); 0275985881 (alk. paper) (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2008)

Christianity

• *Bernard Hamilton, Religion in the Medieval West, 2nd edn (London: Edward Arnold, 2003)
• Charles F. Briggs, The body broken : medieval Europe 1300-1520 ISBN: 9780415341509 (pbk.) : £18.99; 9780415341493 (hbk.) : £65.00; 0415341493 (hbk.) : £65.00; 0415341507 (pbk.) : £18.99 (London: Routledge, 2011)
• F.L. Cross and E.A. Livingstone, eds, Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd edn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997)
• F. Donald Logan, A history of the church in the Middle Ages ISBN: 0415132894(pbk); 0415132886 (London: Routledge, 2002)
• Joseph H. Lynch and Philip C. Adamo, The Medieval Church: A Brief History, 2nd edn (Abingdon: Routledge, 2014)
• Francis Oakley, The Western church in the later Middle Ages ISBN: 0801412080 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1979)
• Barbara Rosenwein, A Short History of the Middle Ages, rev. edn (Orchard Park, NY: Broadview Press, 2004)
• Richard W. Southern, Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970)
• Joseph R. Strayer, ed., Dictionary of the Middle Ages, 13 vols (New York: Scribner, 1982-89)

Islam

• *Albert Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples, rev. edn (London: Faber, 2013)
• Franco Cardini, Europe and Islam ISBN: 0631226370 (pbk. : alk. paper); 063119732X, trans. by Caroline Beamish (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001)
• Brian A. Catlos, Muslims of medieval Latin Christendom, c. 1050-1614 ISBN: 9780521889391 (hardback); 0521889391 (hardback); 9781139902113 (ebook) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014)
• H.A.R. Gibb et al., eds, The Encyclopaedia of Islam., 8 vols (Leiden: Brill, 1960-98)
• Vernon O. Egger, A history of the Muslim world to 1405 : the making of a civilization ISBN: 0130983896 (pbk. : alk. paper)(Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, 2004)
• Gerhard Endress, An introduction to Islam ISBN: 0852244967; 0852245246 (pbk), trans. by Carole Hillenbrand, rev. edn (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002)
• John L. Esposito, ed., The Oxford history of Islam ISBN: 0195107993 (alk. paper) (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999)
• John L. Esposito, Islam: The Straight Path, 3rd edn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998)
• Philip K. Hitti, History of the Arabs : from the earliest times to the present. rev. edn (London: Macmillan, 2002)
• Jean Dammen McAuliffe, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Qur'an (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006) [E]
• Ian R. Netton, ed., A Popular Dictionary of Islam (Lincolnwood, IL: NTC Publishing Group, 1997)
• John Renard, Seven doors to Islam : spirituality and the religious life of Muslims ISBN: 0520204174 (pbk ; cased) : £13.95; 0520200950 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996)
• Neal Robinson, Islam : a concise introduction ISBN: 0700711007 (pbk); 0700711031 (Richmond: Curzon, 1999)
• Malise Ruthven, Islam in the World, 2nd edn (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000)
• J.J. Saunders, A History of Medieval Islam (London: Routledge, 1965 or 1990)
• Dominique Sourdel and Janine Sourdel-Thomine, A glossary of Islam ISBN: 0748621385, trans. by Caroline Higgitt (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007) [E]
• David Waines, An introduction to Islam, rev. edn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)

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PRIMARY SOURCES 

Judaism

• Robert Chazan, ed., Church, state, and Jew in the Middle Ages ISBN: 087441301X (New York: Behrman House, 1980)
• John H. Edwards, ed., The Jews in Western Europe, 1400-1600 ISBN: 0719035090 (pbk); 0719035082 (hardback) (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1994) 
• Lawrence Fine, ed., Judaism in practice : from the Middle Ages through the early modern period ISBN: 0691057877 (pbk); 0691057869 : No price (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002)
• Jacob Rader Marcus, ed., The Jew in the Medieval World: A Source Book, 315-1791 (Cincinnati, OH: Hebrew Union College Press, 1999)

Christianity

• Many primary sources are accessible online in the Internet Medieval Sourcebook.
• Another good source of selected primary material is the companion site to Joseph H. Lynch and Philip C. Adamo, The Medieval Church: A Brief History, 2nd edn (Abingdon: Routledge, 2014)
• The Bible: a number of translations are available. The Douai-Rheims version is a translation of the Latin Vulgate, the version used throughout the Middle Ages.
• James of Voragine, The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints, trans. by W. Granger Ryan, 2 vols (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993)
• S.J. Allen and Emilie Amt, eds, The Crusades : a reader ISBN: 1551115379 (Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 2003)
• Roberta Anderson and Dominic Aidan Bellenger, eds, Medieval religion : a sourcebook ISBN: 0415370280 (pbk.); 9780415370271 (hbk.); 0415370272 (hbk.); 9780415370288 (pbk.) (London: Routledge, 2007)
• Thomas Head, ed., Medieval hagiography : an anthology ISBN: 0415937531 (New York: Routledge, 2001)
• John Shinners, ed., Medieval Popular Religion, 1000-1500: A Reader (Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 1997)
• Brett Whalen, ed., Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages : a reader ISBN: 9781442601994 (pbk.); 144260199X (pbk.) (Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2011)

Islam

• Qur'ān: a number of translations are available [those by M. Pickthall and Yusuf Ali are among the most popular by Muslims, and that of A.J. Arberry is considered one of the best by a non-Muslim. Available at Semitic T-1 and Theology J-2.1].
• A.J. Arberry, ed., Aspects of Islamic civilization, as depicted in the original texts (London: Allen and Unwin, 1964)
• Norman Calder, Jawid Mojaddedi and Andrew Rippin, eds, Classical Islam : a sourcebook of religious literature ISBN: 0415240336 (pbk); 0415240328 (London: Routledge, 2003)
• Arthur Jeffery, ed., A reader on Islam : passages from standard Arabic writings illustrative of the beliefs and practices of Muslims. ('s-Gravenhage: Mouton, 1962)
• James Kritzeck, ed., Anthology of Islamic literature : from the rise of Islam to modern times (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1964)
• Bernard Lewis, ed., Islam from the Prophet Muhammad to the Capture of Constantinople, 2 vols (London: MacMillan, 1976)
• Francis E. Peters, ed., A reader on classical Islam ISBN: 0691000409 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994)
• Rudolph Peters, ed., Jihad in classical and modern Islam : a reader ISBN: 1558761098 (Princeton, NJ: Wiener, 1996)
• John Renard, ed., Windows on the house of Islam : Muslim sources on spirituality and religious life ISBN: 0520210867 (pbk); 0520209761 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998)
• Andrew Rippin and Jan Knappert, eds, Textual sources for the study of Islam ISBN: 0226720632 (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1990)
• John A. Williams, ed., The word of Islam ISBN: 0500277710 (London: Thames and Hudson, 1994)

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INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL CHRISTIANITY

Primary sources

• The Seven Sacraments: Catholic Doctrinal Documents
• Tales of the Host

Core secondary reading

• Bernard Hamilton, Religion in the Medieval West, 2nd edn (London: Edward Arnold, 2003), chapters 1 and 8 Available as an Online Course Reading in Minerva .   
• Joseph H. Lynch and Philip C. Adamo, The Medieval Church: A Brief History, 2nd edn (Abingdon: Routledge, 2014), pp. 273-302 [V]
• Sethina Watson and Norman Tanner, 'Least of the Laity: The Minimum Requirements for a Medieval Christian', Journal of Medieval history. ISSN: 0304-4181, 32 (2000), 395-423 [E]

Further reading

• John Arnold, Belief and Unbelief in Medieval Europe (London: Hodder Arnold, 2005, repr. 2010)
• John Bossy, ‘The Mass as a Social Institution’, Past & present. ISSN: 0031-2746, 100 (1983), 29-61 [E]
• Charles F. Briggs, The body broken : medieval Europe 1300-1520 ISBN: 9780415341509 (pbk.) : £18.99; 9780415341493 (hbk.) : £65.00; 0415341493 (hbk.) : £65.00; 0415341507 (pbk.) : £18.99 (London: Routledge, 2011)
• Andrew Brown, Church and society in England, 1000-1500 ISBN: 0333691458 (pbk.); 033369144X (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) [E]
• Margaret T. Gibson, The Bible in the Latin West (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1993)
• Christopher de Hamel, The book : a history of the Bible ISBN: 0714837741 (London: Phaidon, 2001)
• Barbara Harvey, ‘Work and festa ferianda in Medieval England’, Journal of ecclesiastical history. ISSN: 0022-0469, 23 (1972), 289-308 [E]
• G.W.H. Lampe, ed., The Cambridge History of the Bible: Volume II, The West from the Fathers to the Reformation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969)
• Frans van Liere, An introduction to the medieval Bible ISBN: 9780521684606 (pbk.); 9780521865784 (hardback); 0521865786 (hardback); 0521684609 (pbk.) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014)
• Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Barry D. Walfish and Joseph W. Goering, eds, With reverence for the Word : medieval scriptural exegesis in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam ISBN: 9780199755752 (pbk.); 0195137272; 0199755752 (pbk.) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) [E]
• Colin Morris, The Papal Monarchy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989) [E]
• Eyal Poleg, Approaching the Bible in medieval England ISBN: 9780719089541 (hbk.) : £65.00 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013)
• John F. Romano, 'Priests and the Eucharist in the Middle Ages', in A companion to priesthood and Holy Orders in the Middle Ages ISBN: 9789004236738 (hardback : alk. paper); 9789004305861 (e-book), ed. by Greg Peters and C. Colt Anderson (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 252-280 [E]
• Miri Rubin, Corpus Christi : the Eucharist in late Medieval culture ISBN: 9780521438056; 0521356059 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991)
• Beryl Smalley, Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages, 3rd edn (Oxford: Blackwell, 1983)
• Robert N. Swanson, Religion and devotion in Europe, c.1215-c.1515 ISBN: 0521370760; 0521379504 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995)

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INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL JUDAISM

Primary source

• Maimonides: The Laws and Basic Principles of the Torah. [You do not need to read the whole document but choose a few passages to give yourself an understanding of medieval Jewish beliefs].

Core secondary reading

• Robert Bonfil, ‘Men of Knowledge and Power: A Tentative Profile of Medieval Rabbis’, in Rabbi - Pastor - Priest [electronic resource] : their roles and profiles through the ages ISBN: 9783110266962 92.72 (NL), ed. by Walter Homolka and Heinz-Günther Schöttler (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2013), pp. 55-66 [E]
• Robert Chazan, ‘The Jews in Europe and the Mediterranean Basin’, in The New Cambridge Medieval History, c.1024-c.1198 ISBN: 0521414105, ed. by David Luscombe and Jonathan Riley-Smith (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 623-57 [V]

Further reading

• Haim Beinart, The Expulsion of the Jews from Spain, trans. by Jeffrey M. Green (Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2002)
• Robert Chazan, European Jewry and the First Crusade ISBN: 0520205065; 0520055667 (alk. paper) (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987)
• Robert Chazan, Daggers of faith: thirteenth-century Christian missionizing and Jewish response ISBN: 1520062973 (alk. paper) (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989) [E]
• Jeremy Cohen, Essential papers on Judaism and Christianity in conflict, from late antiquity to the Reformation ISBN: 0814714439; 0814714420 (New York: New York University Press, 1991)
• Jonathan Elukin, Living together, living apart : rethinking Jewish-Christian relations in the Middle Ages ISBN: 0691114870 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9780691114873 (hardcover : alk. paper) (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007)
• Marc Michael Epstein, ‘Illustrating History and Illuminating Identity in the Art of the Passover Haggadah’, in Judaism in practice : from the Middle Ages through the early modern period ISBN: 0691057877 (pbk); 0691057869 : No price, ed. by Lawrence Fine (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001), pp. 298-317
• Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Barry D. Walfish and Joseph W. Goering, eds, With reverence for the Word : medieval scriptural exegesis in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam ISBN: 9780199755752 (pbk.); 0195137272; 0199755752 (pbk.) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) [E]
• Joshua Prawer, The history of the Jews in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem ISBN: 0198225571 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1988)
• Colette Sirat, Hebrew manuscripts of the Middle Ages ISBN: 0521770793, trans. by Nicholas de Lange (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)
• Kenneth R. Stow, Alienated minority: the Jews of medieval Latin Europe ISBN: 0674015924 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992)
• Ariel Toaff, Love, work, and death: Jewish life in medieval Umbria ISBN: 1874774331 (pbk ; cased) : No price (London: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1996)

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INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL ISLAM

Primary source

• The Qur’an, Surah 30.

Core secondary reading

• Reuven Firestone, 'Islamic Clerics: Tradition and Transition', in Rabbi - Pastor - Priest [electronic resource] : their roles and profiles through the ages ISBN: 9783110266962 92.72 (NL), ed. by Walter Homolka and Heinz-Günther Schöttler (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2013), pp. 257-67 [E]
• Jane Dammen McAuliffe, ed., The Cambridge companion to the Qur'an ISBN: 052153934X (pbk.) : £15.99; 0521831601 (hbk.) : £40.00 ISBN: 052153934X (pbk.) : £15.99; 0521831601 (hbk.) : £40.00 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), chapter 1 and 4 [E]

Further reading

• Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom, The art and architecture of Islam 1250-1800 ISBN: 0300064659 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995)
• John Burton, An introduction to the Hadith ISBN: 9780748604357; 0748603506 : £35.00; 0748604359 (pb); 9780748603503 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1994)
• Patricia Crone and Martin Hinds, God's caliph : religious authority in the first centuries of Islam ISBN: 0521321859 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986)
• Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, Inner dimensions of Islamic worship ISBN: 9780860371250; 0860371263, trans. by Muhtar Holland (Leicester: Islamic Foundation, 1983)
• Leonard P. Harvey, Islamic Spain : 1250-1500 ISBN: 0226319628 (pbk); 0226319601 (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1990)
• Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Barry D. Walfish and Joseph W. Goering, eds, With reverence for the Word : medieval scriptural exegesis in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam ISBN: 9780199755752 (pbk.); 0195137272; 0199755752 (pbk.) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) [E] 
• Alex Metcalfe, Muslims and Christians in Norman Sicily : Arabic-speakers and the end of Islam ISBN: 0700716858; 9781315822563 (ebk) (London: Routledge, 2003)
• Andrew Rippin, Muslims : their religious beliefs and practices ISBN: 0415045185: Volume I, The Formative Period (London: Routledge, 1990)
• Norman Roth, Jews, Visigoths and Muslims in medieval Spain : cooperation and conflict ISBN: 9004099719 (Leiden: Brill, 1994)

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PILGRIMAGE AND TRAVEL

Primary sources

• Ibn Battuta’s account of his travels in Asia and Africa (1325-54) [read up to his arrival in Alexandria].
• Pilgrimage to Jerusalem from The Book of Margery Kempe (fifteenth century).

Core secondary reading

• Myriam Rosen-Ayalon, ‘Three Perspectives on Jerusalem: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Pilgrims in the Twelfth Century’, in Jerusalem : its sanctity and centrality to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam ISBN: 0826410243, ed. Lee I. Irvine (New York: Continuum, 1999), pp. 326-46 OCR REQUESTED BY LIBRARY (fad 04/01/2018) [V]
• Elka Weber, ‘Sharing the Sites: Medieval Jewish Travelers to the Land of Israel’, in Eastward bound : travel and travellers, 1050-1550 ISBN: 0719066913 (pbk) : £16.99; 0719066905, ed. by Rosamund Allen (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004), pp. 35-52 OCR REQUESTED BY LIBRARY (fad 04/01/2018) [V]
• Gary Dickson, ‘The Crowd at the Feet of Pope Boniface VIII: Pilgrimage, Crusade and the First Roman Jubilee (1300)’, Journal of Medieval history. ISSN: 0304-4181, 25 (1999), 279-307 [E]
• Dale F. Eickelman and James Piscatori, Muslim travellers : pilgrimage, migration and the religious imagination ISBN: 0415050332 (London: Routledge, 1990), chapter 3 [E]

Further reading

• Rosamund Allen, ed., Eastward bound : travel and travellers, 1050-1550 ISBN: 0719066913 (pbk) : £16.99; 0719066905 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004)
• Nicole Chareyron, Pilgrims to Jerusalem in the Middle Ages ISBN: 0231132301, trans. by W. Donald Wilson (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005)
• Robert Chazan, ‘The Jews in Europe and the Mediterranean Basin’, in The new Cambridge medieval history. Vol. 4. Pts 1 and 2, c.1024-c.1198, ed. by David Luscombe and Jonathan Riley-Smith (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 623-57
• Leigh Ann Craig, Wandering women and holy matrons : women as pilgrims in the later Middle Ages ISBN: 9789004174269 (hardback : alk. paper) (Leiden: Brill, 2009) [E]
• Amikam Elad, Medieval Jerusalem and Islamic worship : holy places, ceremonies, pilgrimage ISBN: 9004100105 (alk. paper) (Leiden: Brill, 1999)
• R. George-Tvrtkovic, A Christian pilgrim in medieval Iraq : Riccoldo da Montecroce's encounter with Islam ISBN: 9782503532370; 2503532373 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2012)
• Martin Jacobs, Reorienting the East : Jewish travelers to the medieval Muslim world ISBN: 9780812246223 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9780812290011 (ebook) (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)
• Jacob Lassner, Medieval Jerusalem : forging an Islamic city in spaces sacred to Christians and Jews ISBN: 9780472130368 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9780472122868 (e-book) (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017)
• F.E. Peters, Jerusalem and Mecca : the typology of the Holy City in the Near East ISBN: 081476598X (New York: New York University Press, 1986)
• F.E. Peters, The Hajj : the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca and the holy places ISBN: 069102619X; 0691021201 (alk. paper) (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994)
• J.R.S. Phillips, The medieval expansion of Europe ISBN: 0192891235, 2nd edn (Oxford: Clarendon, 1998)
• Barbara N. Sargent-Baur, ed., Journeys toward God : pilgrimage and crusade ISBN: 1879288036 (Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1992)
• Joseph Shatzmiller, ‘Jews, Pilgrimage, and the Christian Cult of Saints: Benjamin of Tudela and his Contemporaries’, in After Rome's fall : narrators and sources of early medieval history : essays presented to Walter Goffart ISBN: 0802007791, ed. by Alexander Murray (Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 1998), pp. 337-47 [V]
• J. Stopford, ed., Pilgrimage explored ISBN: 095297343X (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1999)
• Larissa Taylor and others, eds., Encyclopedia of medieval pilgrimage ISBN: 9789004181298 (hbk.) (Leiden: Brill, 2011)
• Maria Tolmacheva, ‘Female Piety and Patronage in the Medieval Hajj’, in Women in the medieval Islamic world : power, patronage, and piety ISBN: 0333740963, ed. by Gavin R.G. Hambly (New York: St Martin’s Press, 1998), pp. 161-179
• Jean Verdon, Travel in the middle ages ISBN: 0268042233; 0268042225 (cloth : alk. paper), trans. by George Holoch (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003)
• Diana Webb, Medieval European pilgrimage, c.700-c.1500 ISBN: 0333762606 (pbk.); 0333762592, (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002) [E]
• Brett Whalen, ed., Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages : a reader ISBN: 9781442601994 (pbk.); 144260199X (pbk.) (Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2011)
• Michael Wolfe, ed., One thousand roads to Mecca : ten centuries of travelers writing about the Muslim pilgrimage ISBN: 0802116116 : (New York: Grove Press, 1997)

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SAINTS AND RELICS

Core secondary reading

• Robert N. Swanson, Religion and devotion in Europe, c.1215-c.1515 ISBN: 0521370760; 0521379504  (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), chapter 5 OCR REQUESTED BY LIBRARY (fad 04/01/2018) [V]
• Ephraim Shoham-Steiner, ‘Jews and Healing at Medieval Saints’ Shrines: Participation, Polemics and Shared Cultures’, The Harvard theological review. ISSN: 0017-8160. ISSN: 0017-8160, 103:1 (2010), 111-29 [E]
• Joseph W. Meri, ‘The Etiquette of Devotion in the Islamic Cult of Saints’, in The cult of saints in late antiquity and the Middle Ages : essays on the contribution of Peter Brown ISBN: 0199253544; 0198269781, ed. by James Howard-Johnston and Paul Antony (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 263-86 [E]

Further reading

• Robert Bartlett, Why can the dead do such great things? : saints and worshippers from the martyrs to the Reformation ISBN: 9780691159133 (hbk.) : £27.95; 9781400848782 (ebook) : No price (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013) [E]
• Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski and Timea Szell, eds, Images of sainthood in medieval Europe ISBN: 0801497450 (paper : alk. paper); 0801425077 (cloth : alk. paper) (Ithaca, MI: Cornell University Press, 1991)
• Christopher Brooke and Rosalind B. Brooke, Popular religion in the Middle Ages : Western Europe 1000-1300 (London: Thames and Hudson, 1984)
• Rosalind B. Brooke, The image of St Francis : responses to sainthood in the thirteenth century ISBN: 0521782910 (hbk.) : £75.00; 9780521782913 (hbk.) : £75.00 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
• Andrew Brown, Church and society in England, 1000-1500 ISBN: 0333691458 (pbk.); 033369144X (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), chapter 3[E]
• Ronald C. Finucane, Miracles and Pilgrims: Popular Beliefs in Medieval England (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995)
• Patrick J. Geary, Furta sacra: Thefts of Relics in the central Middle Ages (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978) [E]
• Patrick J. Geary, Living with the Dead in the Middle Ages (Ithaca, MI: Cornell University Press, 1994) [E]
• Gábor Klaniczay, Holy rulers and blessed princesses : dynastic cults in medieval central Europe ISBN: 0521420180, trans. Éva Pálmai (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)
• Rachel Koopmans, Wonderful to relate : miracle stories and miracle collecting in high medieval England ISBN: 9780812242799 (hbk.) : £42.50; 0812242793 (hbk.) : £42.50 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011)
• Sherry L. Reames, The Legenda aurea : a reexamination of its paradoxical history ISBN: 0299101509 : $40.00 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985)
• Jean-Claude Schmitt, The holy greyhound : Guinefort, healer of children since the thirteenth century ISBN: 2901725554 (France); 052124434X, trans. by Martin Thom (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983)
• Sandro Sticca, ed., Saints : studies in hagiography ISBN: 0866981799 (alk. paper) (Binghamton, NY: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1996)
• Christopher S. Taylor, In the vicinity of the righteous : ziyāra and the veneration of Muslim saints in late medieval Egypt ISBN: 9004110461 (cloth : alk. paper) (Leiden: Brill, 1999)
• André Vauchez, Sainthood in the later Middle Ages ISBN: 0521619815, trans. by Jean Birrell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)
• Simon Yarrow, Saints and their communities : miracle stories in twelfth-century England ISBN: 019928363X (hbk.) : £50.00; 9780199283637 (hbk.) : £50.00 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006) [E]

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CHARITY AND ALMS-GIVING

Primary sources

• New Testament, Matthew 25:31-46
• New Testament, 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Core secondary reading

• James William Brodman, Charity and religion in medieval Europe ISBN: 9780813215808 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780813218878 electronic bk.; 081321887X electronic bk. (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2009), chapter 1 [E]
• Mark R. Cohen, 'Poverty and Charity: Jews in the Medieval Islamic World', in Poverty and prosperity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance ISBN: 9782503530321 (hbk.) : £53.00; 250353032X (hbk.) : £53.00 , ed. by Anne Scott and Cynthia Kosso (Turnhout: Brepols, 2012), pp. 143-54 OCR REQUESTED BY LIBRARY (fad 04/01/2018) [V]
• Adam J. Davis, 'The Social and Religious Meanings of Charity in Medieval Europe', History compass. ISSN: 1478-0542, 12:12 (2014), 935-50 [E]
• Yaacov Lev, 'The Ethics and Practice of Islamic Medieval Charity', History compass. ISSN: 1478-0542, 5:2 (2007), 603-18 [E]

Further reading

• Eliza Buhrer, ‘From caritas to Charity: How Loving God became Giving Alms’, in Poverty and prosperity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance ISBN: 9782503530321 (hbk.) : £53.00; 250353032X (hbk.) : £53.00, ed. by Anne Scott and Cynthia Kosso (Turnhout: Brepols, 2012), pp. 113-128
• Olivia Rennie Constable, Housing the Stranger in the Mediterranean World: Lodging, Trade and Travel in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), especially chapter 3
• Sharon Farmer, ‘From Personal Charity to Centralised Poor Relief: The Evolution of Responses to the Poor in Paris, c. 1250-1600’, in Experiences of charity, 1250-1650 ISBN: 9781472443380; 9781472443397 (ePDF); 9781472443403 (ePUB) , ed. by Anne Scott (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015), pp. 17-42
• Joseph P. Huffman, ‘Potens et pauper: Charity and Authority in Jurisdictional Disputes over the Poor in Medieval Cologne’, in Plenitude of power : the doctrines and exercise of authority in the Middle Ages : essays in memory of Robert Louis Benson ISBN: 0754631737 (alk. paper), ed. by Robert C. Figueira (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), pp. 107-24 [E]
• James M. Jacobs, ‘On the Difference between Social Justice and Christian Charity’, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly , 81 (2007), 419-38 [E] http://www.academia.edu/16333437/On_the_Difference_Between_Social_Justice_and_Charity
• Malcolm Lambert, Franciscan poverty : the doctrine of the absolute poverty of Christ and the Apostles in the Franciscan Order 1210-1323 (London: SPCK, 1961)
• Lester K. Little, Religious Poverty and the Profit Economy in Medieval Europe (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1978)
• Gert Melville, ‘What Role did Charity Play in Francis of Assisi's Attitude to the Poor? ', in Aspects of charity : concern for one's neighbour in medieval vita religiosa ISBN: 9783643111661 (pbk.); 3643111665 (pbk.), ed. by Gert Melville (Münster: LIT Verlag, 2011), pp. 99-121
• Martha G. Newman, The boundaries of charity : Cistercian culture and ecclesiastical reform, 1098-1180 ISBN: 0804725128 (alk. paper) (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996)
• Brian Pullan, ‘Support and Redeem: Charity and Poor Relief from the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Centuries’, in Poverty and charity : Europe, Italy, Venice, 1400-1700 ISBN: 0860784460, ed. by Brian Pullan (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1994), pp. 177-208 [V]
• Suzanne Roberts, ‘Contexts of Charity in the Middle Ages: Religious, Social and Civic’, in Giving : Western ideas of philanthropy ISBN: 0253330726, ed. by Jerome B. Schneewind (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996), pp. 24-53
• Adam Sabra, Poverty and charity in medieval Islam : Mamluk Egypt, 1250-1517 ISBN: 0521772915 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000), chapter 2 [V]
• M.H.D. Van Leeuwen, ‘Logic of Charity: Poor Relief in Preindustrial Europe’, The journal of interdisciplinary history. ISSN: 0022-1953, 24 (1994), 589-613 [E]
• Spencer E. Young, ‘More Blessed to Give and Receive: Charitable Giving in Thirteenth- and Early Fourteenth-Century Exempla’, in Experiences of charity, 1250-1650 ISBN: 9781472443380; 9781472443397 (ePDF); 9781472443403 (ePUB), , ed. by Anne Scott (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015), pp. 63-78

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CONFLICT AND CO-EXISTENCE: JEWISH-CHRISTIAN RELATIONS

Primary source

• Thomas of Monmouth’s account of the death of William of Norwich (the first recorded case of ‘blood libel’ made against a Jewish community).

Core secondary reading

• J.M McCulloh, ‘Jewish Ritual Murder: William of Norwich, Thomas of Monmouth, and the Early Dissemination of the Myth’, Speculum. ISSN: 0038-7134; 2040-8072 72 (1997), 698- 740 [E]
• Robert Chazan, ‘The Blois Incident of 1171: A Study in Jewish Intercommunal Organization’, Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research. ISSN: 0065-6798, 36 (1968), 13-31 [E]
• Miri Rubin, ‘Desecration of the Host: The Birth of an Accusation’, in Medieval religion : new approaches ISBN: 0415316871 (pbk); 0415316863, ed. by Constance Hoffman Berman (New York: Routledge, 2005), pp. 343-46 [E]

Further reading

• Anna S. Abulafia, Christians and Jews in the twelfth century Renaissance ISBN: 0415000122; 9781134990269 (ebk.) (London: Routledge, 1995) [E]
• Anna S. Abulafia, Christian-Jewish relations, 1000-1300 : Jews in the service of medieval Christendom ISBN: 9780582822962 (pbk.) : £19.99; 0582822963 (pbk.) : £19.99 (Harlow: Pearson Education, 2011)
• Rosa Álvarez Pérez, ‘Next-Door Neighbours: Aspects of Judeo-Christian Cohabitation in Medieval France’, in Urban space in the Middle Ages and the early modern age ISBN: 9783110223897 (alk. paper); 3110223899 (alk. paper), ed. by Albrecht Classen (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2009), pp. 309-29
• Anthony P. Bale, The Jew in the medieval book ISBN: 0521863546 (hbk.); 9780521863544 (hbk.) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
• R. Po-Hsia Chia, The myth of ritual murder : Jews and magic in Reformation Germany ISBN: 0300041209 (New Haven, CN: Yale University Press, 1988) [V]
• Mark R. Cohen, Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994)
• Jonathan Elukin, Living together, living apart : rethinking Jewish-Christian relations in the Middle Ages ISBN: 0691114870 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9780691114873 (hardcover : alk. paper) (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007)
• Gavin Langmuir, ‘Thomas of Monmouth: Detector of Ritual Murder’, Speculum. ISSN: 0038-7134; 2040-8072, 59 (1984), 820-46 [E]
• David Malkiel, ‘Jews and Apostates in Medieval Europe – Boundaries Real and Imagined’, Past & present. ISSN: 0031-2746, 194 (2007), 3-34 [E]
• Robert R. Mundill, ‘Out of the Shadow and into the Light – The Impact and Implications of Recent Scholarship on the Jews of Medieval England 1066-1290’,History compass. ISSN: 1478-0542, 9:8 (2011), 572-601 [E]
• Christopher Ocker, ‘Ritual Murder and the Subjectivity of Christ: A Choice in Medieval Christianity’, The Harvard theological review. ISSN: 0017-8160, 91:2 (1998), 153-92 [E]
• Ora Limor, ‘Christians and Jews’, in Christianity in Western Europe, c.1100-c.1500 ISBN: 9780521811064 (hbk.); 0521811066 (hbk.) , ed. by Miri Rubin and Walter Simons (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 135-48 [V]
• Miri Rubin, ‘Desecration of the Host: The Birth of an Accusation’, in Medieval religion : new approaches ISBN: 0415316871 (pbk); 0415316863, ed. by Constance Hoffman Berman (New York: Routledge, 2005), pp. 343-46 [E]
• Miri Rubin, Gentile Tales: The Narrative Assault on Late Medieval Jews (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003)
• Kenneth R. Stow, Alienated minority : the Jews of medieval Latin Europe ISBN: 0674015924 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992)
• Kenneth R. Stow, ‘Conversion, Apostasy, and Apprehensiveness: Emicho of Flonheim and the Fear of Jews in the Twelfth Century’, Speculum. ISSN: 0038-7134; 2040-8072, 76 (2001), 911-33 [E]
• Ariel Toaff, Love, work, and death : Jewish life in medieval Umbria ISBN: 1874774331 (pbk ; cased) : No price (London: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1996) 

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INTER-FAITH DISPUTATIONS AND POLEMICS

Core secondary reading

• David Berger, ed., The Jewish-Christian debate in the high Middle Ages : a critical edition of the Niẓẓaḥon vetus with an introduction, translation, and commentary ISBN: 0827601042 ISBN: 0827601042 (Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1979), introduction [E]
• Dominique Iogna-Prat, ‘The Creation of a Christian Armoury against Islam’, in Medieval religion : new approaches ISBN: 0415316871 (pbk); 0415316863, ed. by Constance Hoffman Berman (New York: Routledge, 2005), pp. 300-19 [E]
• Hava Lazarus-Yafeh, ‘Some Neglected Aspects of Medieval Muslim Polemics against Christianity’, The Harvard theological review. ISSN: 0017-8160, 89:1 (1996), 61-84 [E]

Further reading

• Anna S. Abulafia, Christians and Jews in dispute : disputational literature and the rise of anti-Judaism in the West (c. 1000-1150) ISBN: 0860786749; 0860786617 (Aldershot: Ashgate Variorum, 1998)
• Robert Chazan, Daggers of faith : thirteenth-century Christian missionizing and Jewish response ISBN: 1520062973 (alk. paper) (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989) [E]
• Robert Chazan, Barcelona and beyond : the disputation of 1263 and its aftermath ISBN: 0520074416 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992)
• Robert Chazan, ‘Crusading in Jewish-Christian Polemics’, in The medieval Crusade ISBN: 1843830876 (alk. paper), ed. by Susan J. Ridyard (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2004), pp. 33-51
• Jeremy Cohen, Living letters of the law : ideas of the Jew in Medieval Christianity ISBN: 0520218701 (pbk.) : £14.95; 0520216806 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999)
• Jeremy Cohen, The Friars and the Jews : The Evolution of Medieval Antisemitism (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1982) [E]
• Norman Daniel, Islam and the West: The Making of an Image, rev. edn (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1993), especially chapter 8
• Gilbert Dahan, The Christian polemic against the Jews in the Middle Ages ISBN: 0268008302 (pbk. : alk. paper) (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1998)
• Hugh Goddard, Muslim perceptions of Christianity ISBN: 185640031X (London: Grey Seal, 1996), chapter 2 [V]
• Harvey J. Hames, ‘The Dominicans and mission: looking again at the Barcelona disputation of 1263’, in Making and Breaking the Rules: Discussion, Implementation, and Consequences of Dominican Legislation ISBN: 9780198800972 (hbk.) : £85.00, ed. by Cornelia Linde, Studies of the German Historical Institute London (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 89-103
• William Horbury, ‘Hebrew Apologetic and Polemical Literature’, in Hebrew scholarship and the medieval world ISBN: 0521781167, ed. by Nicholas de Lange (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 189-209 [V]
• J. Kritzeck, Peter the Venerable and Islam (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1964)
• Jane Dammen McAuliffe, ‘Legal Exegesis: Christians as a Case Study’, in Islamic interpretations of Christianity , ed. by Lloyd Ridgeon (Richmond: Curzon, 2001), pp. 54-77
• David Nirenberg, Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today ISBN: 9780226168937 (cloth : alkaline paper); 022616893X (cloth : alkaline paper); 9780226169095 (e-book) (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014)
• Lloyd Rigeon, ‘Christianity as Portrayed by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī’, in Islamic interpretations of Christianity ISBN: 0700713174; 9781315028361 (ebook)y, ed. by Lloyd Ridgeon (Richmond: Curzon, 2001), pp. 99-126
• Norman Roth, Jews, Visigoths and Muslims in medieval Spain : cooperation and conflict ISBN: 9004099719 (Leiden: Brill, 1994), chapter 7 [V]
• Miri Rubin, Gentile Tales : The Narrative Assault on Late Medieval Jews (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003)
• S.M. Stern, ‘‘Abd al-Jabbār’s Account of how Christ’s Religion was Falsified by the Adoption of Roman Customs’, Journal of theological studies. ISSN: 0022-5185; 1477-4607, 19 (1968), 125-185 [E]
• Ryan Szpiech, Conversion and narrative : reading and religious authority in Medieval polemic ISBN: 9780812244717 (hardcover : alk. paper)  (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013)
• John Tolan, Saracens : Islam in the medieval European imagination ISBN: 0231123337 (pbk.) : £17.00; 0231123329 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002)
• Jacques Waardenberg, ed., Muslim perceptions of other religions : a historical survey ISBN: 0195104722 (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999)
• Jacques Waardenberg, Muslims and others : relations in context ISBN: 3110176270 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2003)

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MISSION AND CONVERSION

Primary sources

• Anselm of Canterbury’s account of how to treat a Jewish convert to Christianity (tenth century).
• An eleventh-century Christian account of two Cistercian monks who converted to Judaism.

Core secondary reading

• Lauren Fogle, ‘Between Christianity and Judaism: The Identity of Converted Jews in Medieval London’, Essays in medieval studies. ISSN: 1043-2213, 22 (2005), 107-16 [E]
• Alan J. Forey, ‘The Military Orders and the Conversion of Muslims in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries’, Journal of Medieval history. ISSN: 0304-4181, 28 (2002), 1-22 [E]
• Roger Highfield, ‘Christians, Muslims and Jews in the Same Society: The Rise and Fall of convivencia in Medieval Spain’, Studies in church history. ISSN: 0424-2084, 15 (1978), 121-46 [V]
• Contesting inter-religious conversion in the medieval world ISBN: 9781317160274 (e-book) ed. by Yaniv Fix and Yosi Yisraeli (London: Routledge, 2017) [E-Book on order]

Further reading

• Marshall W. Baldwin, ‘Missions to the East in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries’, in A history of the Crusades. Vol.5, The impact of the Crusades on the Near East, ed. by Norman P. Zacour and Harry W. Hazard (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985), pp. 452-89 [V]
• Nora Berend, At the gate of Christendom : Jews, Muslims and 'pagans' in medieval Hungary, c.1000-c.1300 ISBN: 0521651859 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001)
• Jessalynn Lea Bird, ‘Crusade and Conversion after the Fourth Lateran Council (1215): Oliver of Paderborn’s and James of Vitry’s Missions to Muslims Reconsidered’, Essays in medieval studies. ISSN: 1043-2213, 21 (2004), 23-47 [E]
• Mathias Brown, ‘Missionary Problems in the Thirteenth Century: A Study in Missionary Preparation', in The medieval frontiers of Latin Christendom : expansion, contraction, continuity ISBN: 9780754659730 (hbk.) : £80.00; 0754659739 (hbk.) : £80.00, ed. by James Muldoon and Felipe Fernández-Armesto (Farnham: Ashgate, 2008), pp. 133-48 [V]
• R.I. Burns, ‘Christian-Islamic Confrontation in the West: The Thirteenth-Century Dream of Conversion’, The American historical review. ISSN: 0002-8762, 76 (1971), 1386-412 [E]
• Robert Chazan, European Jewry and the First Crusade ISBN: 0520205065; 0520055667 (alk. paper) (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987)
• Robert Chazan, Daggers of faith : thirteenth-century Christian missionizing and Jewish response ISBN: 1520062973 (alk. paper) (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989) [E]
• Richard Fletcher, The conversion of Europe : from paganism to Christianity, 371-1386 AD ISBN: 0002552035 AD (London: HarperCollins, 1997)
• Dominique Iogna-Prat, ‘The Creation of a Christian Armoury against Islam’, in Medieval religion : new approaches ISBN: 0415316871 (pbk); 0415316863 ed. by Constance Hoffman Berman (New York: Routledge, 2005), pp. 300-19 [E]
• Benjamin Z. Kedar, Crusade and mission : European approaches toward the Muslims ISBN: 069105424X; 0691102465 (pbk) (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984)
• C.H. Lawrence, The friars : the impact of the early mendicant movement on Western society (London and New York: Longman, 1994), chapter 11
• James Muldoon, ed., Varieties of religious conversion in the Middle Ages ISBN: 081301509X (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1997)
• David Nirenberg, ‘Muslims in Christian Iberia, 1000-1526: Varieties of Mudejar Experience’, in The medieval world ISBN: 041530234x; 0415181518, ed. by Peter Linehan and Janet L. Nelson (London: Routledge, 2001)
• J.R.S. Phillips, The Medieval Expansion of Europe, 2nd edn (Oxford: Clarendon, 1998)
• James M. Powell, ed., Muslims Under Latin Rule, 1100-1300 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990)
• Joseph Shatzmiller, ‘Jewish Converts to Christianity in Medieval Europe’, in Cross cultural convergences in the Crusader period : essays presented to Aryeh Grabois on his sixty-fifth birthday ISBN: 0820423548 (hardcover : alk. paper), ed. by Michael Goodich, Sophia Menache and Sylvia Schein (New York: Peter Lang, 1995), pp. 297-318 [V]
• Elizabeth Siberry, ‘Missionaries and Crusaders, 1095-1274: Opponents or Allies?’, Studies in church history. ISSN: 0424-2084, 20 (1983), 103-10 [V]
• Robin Chapman Stacey, ‘The Conversion of Jews to Christianity in Thirteenth-Century England’, Speculum. ISSN: 0038-7134; 2040-8072, 67 (1992), 263-83 [E]
• Ryan Szpiech, Conversion and narrative : reading and religious authority in Medieval polemic ISBN: 9780812244717 (hardcover : alk. paper) (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013)
• David A. Wacks, ‘Conflicted Identity and Colonial Adaptation in Petrus Alfonsi’s Dialogus contra judaeos and Disciplina clericalis ’, in Marginal voices : studies in converso literature of medieval and golden age Spain , ed. by Amy Aronson-Friedman and Gregory B. Kaplan (Leiden: Brill, 2012), pp. 69-89 [E]
• James Waltz, ‘Historical Perspectives on “Early Missions” to Muslims’, The Muslim world. ISSN: 0027-4909, 61 (1971), 170-86 [E]

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HOLY WAR AND JIHAD

Primary sources

• Guibert of Nogent’s account of the call for the First Crusade.
• Soloman bar Samson’s account of the massacre of Jews in Mainz at the hands of crusaders in 1096.
• Extracts from the autobiography of Usmah Ibn Munqidh (1095-1188).

Core secondary reading

• Judith Bronstein, ‘The Crusade and the Jews: Some Reflections on the 1096 Massacre’, History compass. ISSN: 1478-0542, 5 (2007), 1268-79 [E]
• Marcus Bull, ‘The Roots of Lay Enthusiasm for the First Crusade’, History. ISSN: 0018-2648, 78 (1993), 353-72 [E]
• Paul M. Cobb, The race for paradise : an Islamic history of the Crusades ISBN: 9780199532018 (hbk.) : £20.00 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), especially pp. 28-33 [E]

Further reading

• Richard Bonney, Jihād : from Qurʼān to Bin Laden ISBN: 1403933723 (cloth); 9780230501423 ebk (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2004)
• Robert Chazan, European Jewry and the First Crusade ISBN: 0520205065; 0520055667 (alk. paper) (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987)
• Robert Chazan, ‘Crusading in Jewish-Christian Polemics’, in The medieval Crusade ISBN: 1843830876 (alk. paper), ed. by Susan J. Ridyard (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2004), pp. 33-51
• Jill N. Claster, Sacred violence : the European Crusades to the Middle East, 1095-1396 ISBN: 9781442600607, 1095-1396 (Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2009)
• Reuven Firestone, Jihad : the origin of holy war in Islam ISBN: 0195125800 (cloth) (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999)
• Carole Hillenbrand, The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998)
• Nikolas Jaspert, The crusades ISBN: 0415359686 (pb); 9780415359672 (hbk); 9780415359689 (pbk); 0415359678 (hb), trans. by Phyllis Jestice (New York: Routledge, 2006) [E]
• Benjamin Z. Kedar, Crusade and mission : European approaches toward the Muslims ISBN: 069105424X; 0691102465 (pbk) (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984)
• John Kelsay and James Turner, Just war and Jihad : historical and theoretical perspectives on war and peace in Western and Islamic traditions ISBN: 0313273472 (New York: Greenwood, 1991)
• Peter Lock, ed., The Routledge companion to the Crusades ISBN: 0415393124 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0415247322 (hardback : alk. paper) (Abingdon: Routledge, 2006)
• David Malkiel, ‘Destruction or Conversion: Intention and Reaction, Crusaders and Jews, in 1096’, Jewish history. ISSN: 0334-701X, 15 (2001), 257-280 [E]
• Colin Morris, ‘Propaganda for War: The Dissemination of the Crusading Ideal in the Twelfth Century’, Studies in church history. ISSN: 0424-2084, 20 (1983), 79-101
• Alan Murray, ed., The Crusades : an encyclopedia ISBN: 1576078620 (alk. paper); 1576078639 (ebook) (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2006) [E]
• Helen Nicholson, ‘Muslim Reactions to the Crusades’, in Palgrave advances in the Crusades ISBN: 140391236x; 1403912378 (pbk) : £16.99, ed. by Helen Nicholson (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), pp. 269-88
• Rudolph Peters, Jihad in classical and modern Islam : a reader ISBN: 1558761098 (Princeton, NJ: Wiener, 1996)
• Jonathan Phillips, The Crusades, 1095-1197 ISBN: 0582328225 ISBN: 0582328225 (Harlow: Longman, 2002)
• Jean Richard, The Crusades, c. 1071-c. 1291 ISBN: 0521625661; 0521623693, trans. by Jean Birrell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999)
• Jonathan Riley-Smith, The Crusades: A History (London: Continuum, 2005)
• Jonathan Riley-Smith, The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading (London: Athlone, 1986)
• Barbara N. Sargent-Baur, ed., Journeys toward God : pilgrimage and crusade ISBN: 1879288036 (Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1992)
• Christopher Tyerman, ‘Who went on Crusades to the Holy Land?’, in The Horns of Ḥaṭṭīn : proceedings of the Second Conference of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East, Jerusalem and Haifa, 2-6 July 1987 ISBN: 0860783340 (London); 9652170852 (Jerusalem), ed. by Benjamin Z. Kedar (London: Variorum, 1992), pp. 13-26

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SUMMARY

Core secondary reading

• Christine Caldwell Ames, ‘Medieval Religious, Religions, Religion’, History compass. ISSN: 1478-0542, 10:4 (2012), 334-53 [E]
• John Van Engen, ‘The Christian Middle Ages as a Historiographical Problem’, The American historical review. ISSN: 0002-8762, 91:3 (1986), 519-52 [E]

Further reading

• John Van Engen, ‘The Future of Medieval Church History’, Church history : studies in Christianity and culture. ISSN: 0009-6407; 1755-2613, 71 (2002), 492-522

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