Conversion and Narrative: Reading and Religious Authority in Medieval Polemic

Szpiech draws on medieval Christian, Jewish, and Muslim polemics to investigate the role of narrative in the representation of conversion. By investigating conversion not as individual experience but as expression of communal visions of history, he shows how the narratives dramatize the conflict of ideas in disputational writing.

• | By (Author): Ryan Szpiech (Author)
• | Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 06, 2012
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 328 pages
• | Language: NULL
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0812244710
• | ISBN-13: 9780812244717