Biographical note: Ulrich Volp, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. Der Publikation der Apokritikosauszüge "eines griechischen Philosophen des 3. Jahrhunderts0 (Adolf von Harnack 1911) folgt ein Jahrhundert später hiermit in derselben Reihe eine vollständige zweisprachige Aus…
"In sixteenth-century Marrakesh, a Flemish merchant converts to Judaism and takes his Catholic brother on a subversive reading of the Gospels and an exploration of the Jewish faith. Their vivid Spanish dialogue, composed by an anonym in 1583, has until now escaped scholarly atte…
Much of the world today is convulsed in an epic struggle between the Christian West and Islam. Scholars seeking to understand the issues look back in history to unearth the roots of this conflict. Of great value in this effort are the writings of an eyewitness, a devoted Christi…
"Christine de Pizan's Livre de la Cite des Dames (1405) is justly renowned for its full-scale assault on the misogynist stereo-types which dominated the culture of the Middle Ages. Rosalind Brown-Grant locates the Cite in the context of Christine's defence of women as it develop…
"Robert of Arbrissel (d. 1117) once named Cluny among the chief holy places of Christendom--just after Bethlehem, Jerusalem, and Rome. When Peter the Venerable (d. 1156) became the ninth abbot of Cluny in 1122, Cluny had thousands of monks in the mother abbey and her daughter ce…
