Exploring the diverse landscape of religious conversion, this collection examines historical contexts from early Christian pilgrims to Reformation Germany and fifteenth-century Ethiopia. It delves into the complexities of Jewish, Muslim, and Christian experiences, highlighting both continuity and change across different cultures. The essays investigate various causes and characteristics of conversion, providing a nuanced understanding of how faith and identity intersect throughout history.
Miri Rubin Book order (chronological)
January 1, 1956
Miri Rubin is a medieval historian whose work delves into the social and religious history of Europe between 1100 and 1500. Her scholarship intricately explores the relationships between public rituals, power, and the fabric of community life. Rubin offers profound insights into the shaping and influence of European societies during the late medieval period. Her analyses provide readers with a compelling look at the dynamics of the past.
Cities of Strangers
- 204 pages
- 8 hours of reading
Examining how 'strangers' - settling newcomers as well as settled ethnic and religious minorities - were treated in urban communities between 1000 and 1500, Cities of Strangers explores pathways to citizenship and arrangements for those unlikely to become citizens during a period of formative urban growth and its aftermath in medieval Europe.
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought Fourth Series: Charity and Community in Medieval Cambridge
- 379 pages
- 14 hours of reading
This study develops our understanding of medieval society through an examination of its charitable activities. In a detailed study of the forms in which relief was organised in medieval Cambridge and Cambridgeshire, the book unravels the economic and demographic factors which created the need for relief as well as the forms in which the community offered it. With continual reference to the religious teachings of priests and friars and the changing ideas of lay piety, Dr Rubin relates the changing forms of charitable giving to the shift in attitudes towards community and social order, towards relations between laity and clergy, and towards the poor. A local study is thus set in a wide comparative context, drawing together contributions in the fields of social, religious, economic and urban history.