Search Results - "polemic"

Negotiating community and difference in medieval Europe gender, power, patronage, and the authority of religion in Latin Christendom /

Table of Contents: “…The matter of others : menstrual blood and uncontrolled semen in thirteenth-century kabbalists' polemic against Christians, "bad" Jews, and Muslims /…”
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Gender and Christianity in Modern Europe : Beyond the Feminization Thesis /

Table of Contents: “…Gendering the history of Christianity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Patrick Pasture -- The Catholic poor relief discourse and the feminization of the Caritas in early nineteenth-century Germany / Bernhard Schneider -- Celibate or married priests? Polemical gender discourse in nineteenth-century Catholicism / Angela Berlis -- The cult of the Virgin Mary, or the feminization of the male element in the Roman Catholic Church? …”
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Locations of knowledge in medieval and early modern Europe esoteric discourse and Western identities / by Stuckrad, Kocku von, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…-- The two-fold pluralism -- The polemical construction of tradition -- The construction of Prisca Theologia -- Genealogies of wisdom -- Jewish perspectives -- Beyond tradition -- Conceptualizing the study of esoteric discourse -- Approaches to esotericism -- Secrecy as social capital -- Discourses of perfect knowledge -- Shared passions -- The secrets of experience : wisdom beyond demonstration -- Neoplatonism and theurgy in late antiquity -- Experiential knowledge in Suhrawardi's illuminationist philosophy -- The secrets of texts : esoteric hermeneutics -- The readability of the cosmos : Europe's obsession with words -- The textile of the divine in early Kabbalah -- Linguistic ontologies in Christian Kabbalah -- Humanistic philology : universal languages and the quest for the Ursprache -- The secrets of time : astrology and sacred history -- Critical response to ancient traditions : medieval Arabic astrology -- Sharing Muslim knowledge : Christian astrology -- Interferences -- Scientific encounters -- "Occult sciences" : the science-religion divide revisited -- John Dee : a scholar gone mad? …”
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A Brief History of Islam in Europe : Thirteen Centuries of Creed, Conflict and Coexistence / by Berger, Maurits

Table of Contents: “…The Study and Legends of Islam -- 2. Polemics -- 3. Culture and Technology.…”
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Romanticism and the Anglo-Hispanic imaginary

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Syphilis : Medicine, Metaphor, and Religious Conflict in Early Modern France / by Losse, Deborah N., 1944-

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