Table of Contents

Introduction

[Yaniv Fox and Yosi Yisraeli]

1. Conversion as a Historiographical Problem: The Case of Zoraya/Isabel de Solís

[Ryan Szpiech]

Part I: Regulating Conversion

2. Conversion on Trial: Toleration of Apostasy and the Trial of Three Converts to Judaism in the Dutch Republic, 1614-5

[Alexander van der Haven ]

3. Anxieties in Conflict: The Ratto of Anna del Monte

[Kenneth Stow]

4. Normative Texts as Sources for Conversion to Christianity in Europe

[Roy Flechner]

5. Royal Policy and Conversion of Jews to Christianity in Thirteenth-Century Europe

[John Tolan]

Part II: Social Realities of Inter-Religious Conversion

6. The Donor and the Gravedigger: Converts to Judaism in the Cairo Geniza Documents

[Moshe Yagur]

7. Conversion as an Aspect of Master-Slave Relationship in the Medieval Egyptian Jewish Community

Craig Perry

8. Returning Apostates and Their Marital Partners in Medieval Ashkenaz

[Ephraim Kanarfogel]

9. Conversion and Return to Judaism in High and Late Medieval Europe: Christian Perceptions and Portrayals

[Paola Tartakoff]

Part III: Narrating Conversion

10. Conversion from the Worst to the Best: The Relationship between Medieval Judaism, Islam, and Christianity

[Irven Resnick]

11. The Role of Preaching in the Conversion to Islam

[Linda G. Jones]

12. Between Tyranny and the Commonwealth: Political Discourses and the Framing of Violence against Conversos in the Gesta Hispaniensia of Alfonso de Palencia

[Yanay Israeli]

13. Converting Bodies, Embodying Conversion: The Production of Religious Identities in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

[Henriette-Rika Benveniste and Giorgos Plakotos]

About the Author

Yaniv Fox is a senior lecturer of late antique and early medieval history at Bar-Ilan University (Israel), and a member of the I-CORE Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters.

Yosi Yisraeli is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Bar-Ilan University.