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Category : Islam
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
The Muslim World Book Review
Author: Law and Religion in Chaucer's England
Author: Henry Ansgar KellyPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000948544
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
These essays, in a second collection by Professor Kelly, investigate legal and religious subjects touching on the age and places in which Geoffrey Chaucer lived and wrote, especially as reflected in the more contemporary sections of the Canterbury Tales. Topics include the canon law of incest (consanguinity, affinity, spiritual kinship), the prosecution of sexual offences and regulation of prostitution (especially in the Stews of Southwark), legal opinions about wife-beating, and the laws of nature concerning gender distinction (focusing on Chaucer's Pardoner) and the technicalities of castration. Sacramental and devotional practices are discussed, especially dealing with confession and penitence and the Mass. Chaucer's Prioress serves as the starting point for a treatment of regulations of nuns in medieval England and also for the presence, real and virtual, of Jews and Saracens (Muslims and pagans) in England and conversion efforts of the time, as well as sympathetic or antipathetic attitudes towards non-Christians. Included is a case study on the legend of St Cecilia in Chaucer and elsewhere, and as patron of music; and a discussion of canonistic opinion on the licit limits of medicinal magic (in connection with the ministrations of John the Carpenter in the Miller's Tale).
American Book Publishing Record
Author: The Jew, the Gypsy and El Islam
Author: Sir Richard Francis BurtonPublisher:
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Category : Islam
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Index Islamicus
Author: Canterbury Tales
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerForthcoming Books
Author: Rose ArnyPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1414
Book Description
Nicholas of Cusa and Islam
Author: Ian Christopher LevyPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004274766
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
To explore Christian-Muslim relations at the dawn of the modern age, this book examines Nicholas of Cusa’s seminal works on the Qur’an and world religions. It also considers Muslim responses to Christianity and other Christian writings on Islam.
The Crimean Tatars
Author: Brian Glyn WilliamsPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004121225
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
This volume provides the most up-to-date analysis of the ethnic cleansing of the Crimean Tatars, their exile in Central Asia and their struggle to return to the Crimean homeland. It also traces the formation of this diaspora nation from Mongol times to the collapse of the Soviet Union. A theme which emerges through the work is the gradual construction of the Crimea as a national homeland by its indigenous Tatar population. It ends with a discussion of the post-Soviet repatriation of the Crimean Tatars to their Russified homeland and the social, emotional and identity problems involved.
The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 2, The Hellenistic Age
Author: William David DaviesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521219297
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
Vol. 4 covers the late Roman period to the rise of Islam. Focuses especially on the growth and development of rabbinic Judaism and of the major classical rabbinic sources such as the Mishnah, Jerusalem Talmud, Babylonian Talmud and various Midrashic collections.