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In Dominicans, Muslims and Jews in the Medieval Crown of Aragon , Robin Vose employs elegant wit and admirable prose in examining “whether, how and to what extent Dominican friars in the foundational first century of their Order’s existence actually dedicated themselves to converting, persecuting or otherwise interfering with Jewish and Muslim populations in the multicultural lands of the western Mediterranean basin.” Vose’s study is a valuable addition to an already deep field of scholarship on the subject of interreligious relations in medieval Iberia. More importantly he adeptly uses the sources to complicate and question many of the conclusions accepted as aprioristic truth by his predecessors, namely that Dominicans working in Iberia and the western Mediterranean pursued the conversion of Jews and Muslims through an active program of language and theological studies and missionizing. Vose unfortunately leaves unsaid the extent to which this examination does respond to and reject previous scholarship, specifically the “maximalist” school of interpretation, which saw the few concrete examples of Dominican activities in this direction as the tip of an iceberg of cross-cultural missionizing. Vose regrettably avoids addressing or engaging with these “maximalist” authors directly, instead rather independently arguing that the Dominicans were not
Medieval Encounters – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2013
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