TY  - GEN
AU  - Tolan,John
AU  - Echevarria,Ana
AU  - Pedro Monferrer-Sala,Juan
AU  - Tolan,John
AU  - Echevarria,Ana
AU  - Pedro Monferrer-Sala,Juan
TI  - Law and Religious Minorities in Medieval Societies : between theory and praxis
SN  - M.RELMIN-EB.5.108940
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Turnhout
PB  - Brepols
KW  - History
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Archaeology
KW  - Religion: general
KW  - law
KW  - religious minorities
KW  - medieval societies
N1  - Open Access
N2  - This volume shows through the use of legal sources that law was used to try to erect boundaries between communities in order to regulate or restrict interaction between the faithful and the non-faithful; and at the same time shows how these boundaries were repeatedly transgressed and negotiated. Muslim law developed a clear legal cadre for dhimmīs, inferior but protected non-Muslim communities (in particular Jews and Christians) and Roman Canon law decreed a similar status for Jewish and Muslim communities in Europe. Yet the theoretical hierarchies between faithful and infidel were constantly brought into question in the daily interactions between men and women of different faiths in streets, markets, bath-houses, law courts, etc. The twelve essays in this volume explore these tensions and attempts to resolve them. These contributions show that law was used to try to erect boundaries between communities in order to regulate or restrict interaction between the faithful and the non-faithful—and at the same time how these boundaries were repeatedly transgressed and negotiated. These essays explore also the possibilities and the limits of the use of legal sources for the social historian
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UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/37178
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