Expulsion and diaspora formation : religious and ethnic identities in flux from antiquity to the seventeenth century / edited by John Tolan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tolan, John Victor, 1959- editor.

Central European University, host institution.

Series:

Religion and law in medieval Christian and Muslim societies ; 5.

Religion and law in Medieval Christian and Muslim Societies ; v.5

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Europe--Emigration and immigration--History--To 1500--Congresses.

Europe.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Religion and Law in Medieval Christian and Muslim Societies vol. 5

Expulsion and Diaspora Formation

Place of Publication:

Turnhout Brepols 2015

Language Note:

English.

French.

Summary:

The eleven essays brought together in this volume explore the relations between expulsion, diaspora, and exile between Late Antiquity and the seventeenth century. The essays range from Hellenistic Egypt to seventeenth-century Hungary and involve expulsion and migration of Jews, Muslims and Protestants. The common goal of these essays is to shed light on a certain number of issues: first, to try to understand the dynamics of expulsion, in particular its social and political causes; second, to examine how expelled communities integrate (or not) into their new host societies; and finally, to understand how the experiences of expulsion and exile are made into founding myths that establish (or attempt to establish) group identities.

Contents:

Foreword / Katalin Szende & John Tolan

Exile and identity / John Tolan

Spies of the enemy, pagan herders and vassals most welcome : Cuman-Hungarian relations in the thirteenth century / Kyra Lyublyanovics

Scapegoats or competitors? : the expulsion of Jews from Hungarian towns on the aftermath of the battle of Mohács (1526) / Katalin Szende

Banishment from the edge of the world : the Jewish experience of expulsion from England in 1290 / Robin Mundill

'The first exile is ours' : the terms golah and galut in medieval and early modern Jewish reponsa / Nadezda Koryakina

Losing Spain, securing Zion : allegory and mental adaption to exile among refugees of the Iberian inquisitions / Carsten L. Wilke

The galley-slave trial of 1674 : conviction and expulsion of Hungarian Protestants / Marcell Sebők

Où cessent les mots : juifs de Catalogne? : Une révision de terms "sefardi" appliqué aux juifs de Catalogne / Josep Xavier Muntané i Santiveri

Considerations on the administrative organization of the Jewish military colony in Leontopolis : a case of generosity and calculation / Patrick Sänger

Transients? : Jews in Alexandria in the late Middle Ages through Venetian eyes / Georg Christ

Christopher Marlowe and the Jews of Malta / Marianna D. Birnbaum

Conclusion / Susan Einbinder.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9782503562148

2503562140

OCLC:

1011216234

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access