IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 1029: Islam and the Latin West, I
Wednesday 11 July 2012, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library |
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| Organiser: | Jan Ziolkowski, Department of the Classics, Harvard University / Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC |
| Moderator/Chair: | Danuta Shanzer, Institut für Klassische Philologie, Mittel- und Neulatein, Universität Wien |
| Paper 1029-a | The Devil and the Prophet: Assigning Blame in the Two Earliest Latin Lives of Muhammad (Language: English) Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Paper 1229-b | West Meets East: Medievals Latinizing in Asia (Language: English) |
| Abstract | The interactions between the Christian West and the Islamic East have attracted increasing attention. Although the Crusades are well known, many other aspects of the relationship, especially as it involved Latin authors, warrant further exploration that can build upon the work of scholars such as Thomas Burman and John Tolan. These sessions will range across roughly seven hundred years - half the history of the encounter between Christianity and Islam - and will focus on Latin writings on the life (and death) of Muhammad, Latin controversial treatises on the Koran, and Latin translations of apologetic texts. |