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Dhimma - diversity and multiculturalism in medieval Islam

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"It might be surprising to imagine that the societies of the medieval Mediterranean were brimming with diversity.  (...) Linguistic and...

11th century Benedictine translations of Islamic manuscripts

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"Peter the Venerable (c. 1092 – 25 December 1156) was between 1122 and 1156 abbot of the Benedictine abbey of Cluny. Despite his activ...

Medieval Anatolian architectural hybridities

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  Until the establishment of Ottoman suzerainty over the region in the mid-fifteenth century, Anatolia was a place of cultural “betweenness...

Medieval Benedictine anti-islam manuscripts by Peter of Cluny

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Peter the Venerable (c. 1092 – 25 December 1156) was between 1122 and 1156 the 8th abbot of the Benedictine abbey of Cluny. (...) His greate...

Medieval Frankish society well in touch with the Holy Land

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On her " Real Crusader History Blog " Dr. Helena P. Schrader reviews " Frankish rural settlement in the Latin Kingdom of Je...

Cluny Abbey - 10th century start of restoring spiritual independence

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As early as the tenth century, the situation and dependence of the church on worldly power had alarmed many devout men. In the hope of impro...

Christian pilgrimage to the Holy Land during the first centuries AD

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From the earliest times Christians felt a desire to see for themselves the places hallowed by the incarnate God, where Christ was born and p...

11th Century Benedictine participation in the Toledo "School" of Translators

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Toledo, with a large population of Arabic-speaking Christians (Mozarabs) had been an important center of learning and translation since as...

8th to 10th century pilgrimage to the Holy Land

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In the 8th century the numbers (of pilgrims, TN) increased. Pilgirmage was now promoted as a means of penance. (...) Relations between the w...