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10 October 2024
Peter the Venerable
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Peter of Montboissier was born to a woman who was called "Blessed Raingarde" (she was revered as saintly but not formally canonize...
12 May 2024
Ending Religious Tolerance
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The 10th Abbasid caliph was not intended to rise to that position. Ja'far ibn Muhammad ibn Harun was born in 822 to an Abbasid prince a...
01 May 2024
Raising Moral Children
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Ramon Llull was a 13th century Catalan mystic and theologian whose controversial writings made him many enemies. One of his more interestin...
23 May 2022
John of Damascus
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John of Damascus was born into a well-to-do Arab-Christian family in Damascus around 675 CE. His father was an official serving the Umayyad ...
01 April 2022
The Laffer Curve
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That is an odd headline (and topic) for a blog on the Middle Ages, but let's push on and see where we wind up. The Laffer Curve (named f...
20 March 2022
Averroes
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(Note: Most of this is from the previous post "The Commentator" on 11 December 2012) Averroes (1126-1198) was born in Córdoba into...
27 February 2022
The Iberian Melting Pot
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A few days back, Ladino was mentioned in the first post about the Toledo School of Translators. I described it parenthetically as Judaeo-Spa...
06 November 2015
An Arabian Polymath
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Abū Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd ibn Ḥazm—let's just call him Ibn Hazm—was a prime example of how medieval scholars could be very ...
28 June 2012
Nicholas of Cusa: Ecumenist
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After the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the Turks, Nicholas of Cusa (c.1400-1464) wrote De pace fidei (On the Peace of Faith), in which...
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