"This book is about the blood libel in medieval Europe. The blood libel comprises the stories that Jews would kill Christian children for ritual purposes, such as using the blood of Christian children to make matzah. The book is about Christian fears about forced conversion to J…
This comparative ethnographic study analyzes the backgrounds, motivations, and sociohistorical contexts of emerging Jewish communities in Cameroon, Ghana, India, and other postcolonial locales. It investigates the ramifications of these new movements for the larger Judeo-Christi…
Describes accusations against witches, Jews, and Conversos in Rome (then part of the Papal States) at the end of the 15th and during the 16th century. In regard to Jews or Conversos, relates that in 1498 the Converso Pedro de Aranda, former Bishop of Calahorra, Spain, was arrest…
Taking as its main subject a series of notorious forgeries by Muslim converts in sixteenth-century Granada (including an apocryphal gospel in Arabic), this book studies the emotional, cultural and religious world view of the Morisco minority and the complexity of its identity, c…
"Muslims, Jews and Pagans examines in much detail the available source material on the 'Aliya area south of Medina on the eve of Islam and at the time of the Prophet Muhammad. It provides part of the necessary background for the study of the Prophet's history by utilizing in add…
This book deals with one of the central problems for theories of word-formation, the productivity of morphological processes. The productivity of these processes is assessed, using both text-based and dictionary - based measures (Cobuild corpus vs. Oxford English Dictionary). Im…
"Jews and Converts in Late Medieval Castile examines the ways in which Jewish-Christian relations evolved in Castile, taking account of social, cultural and religious factors that affected the two communities throughout the fourteenth and early-fifteenth centuries. The territori…
