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Jaspert, Nikolas, "Mendicants, Jews and Muslims at Court in the Crown of Aragon: Social Practice and Inter-Religious Communication", dins: Höh, Marc von der - Jaspert, Nikolas - Oesterle, Jenny Rahel (eds.), Cultural Brokers at Mediterranean Courts, Paderborn, Wilhelm Fink - Ferdinand Schöningh (Mittelmeerstudien, 1), 2013, pp. 107-147.

Resum

"In what follows I will centre on one aspect of courtly communication andtransfer: Christian clerics' interactions with Muslims and Jews – mostly fromthe viewpoint of the politically dominant religious group, i.e. Latin Christians.The article will focus on medieval Catalonia, making only passing reference tothe other components of the medieval Crown of Aragon (Aragon, Majorca andValencia). I will attempt to approach the subject in five steps: The first is ded-icated to the court personnel in general and the second to the mendicants in particular. I will then address the court as a place of inter-religious contact andcultural brokerage and finally try to delineate the role both mendicants and thecourt played within this field. The objective of the paper is first of all to re-evaluate the presence of the regular clergy at court by defining a variety of ac-tivities and circumstances which caused mendicants to stay at court for ashorter or longer period of time; mendicants are long known to have played arole in the development of political cultures in pre-modern societies, which ishowever generally reduced to their activities as spiritual advisors and theolo-gians. A similar differentiation might also be achieved with regard to “monas-tic life” in the Middle Ages: Placing religious Medieval experts within the par-ticular social context of mediaeval courts and thus juxtaposing mendicants'activities at court to religious life within the monastic setting might lead to amore nuanced view of the medieval regular clergy. Furthermore, and regard-ing the mendicants' stance towards other creeds, a detailed analysis of theirmultiple engagements with Aragonese and Catalan Muslims and Jews mightwiden the traditional focus on polemics and persecution and thereby broadenour conception of inter-religious brokerage. And finally, addressing Mendi-cants, Muslims and Jews simultaneoulsy as cultural brokers from a similar perspective, that is, with respect to the social practices they developed on var-ious levels in a shared space, the royal medieval court, might help cross the borders of academic research traditions, usually confined to studying one ofthese societal groups at a time" (109).

Matèries

Història - Prosopografia
Musulmans
Jueus
Església - Ordes religiosos

Notes

Francesc Eiximenis (116-117). Arnau de Vilanova (142). Recull algunes dades sobre: intèrprets, alfaquins i torsimanys (126-127), administradors (128), menescals (128), metges jueus i musulmans (129-130), artesans i mestres d'astrolabis (130-132), traduccions i traductors (142-143).

URL

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