Book review:΄ Greg, PETERS, Peter of Damascus. Byzantine Monk and Spiritual Theologian (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Studies and Texts 175, 2011)

Βιβλιοκρισία:Greg, PETERS, Peter of Damascus.  Byzantine Monk and Spiritual Theologian (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Studies and Texts 175, 2011), 182 p. + Appendices and Bibliography.Βιβλιοκρισία:Greg, PETERS, Peter of Damascus.  Byzantine Monk and Spiritual Theologian (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Studies and Texts 175, 2011), 182 p. + Appendices and Bibliography

Book review:΄ Greg, PETERS, Peter of Damascus. Byzantine Monk and Spiritual Theologian (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Studies and Texts 175, 2011)

Βιβλιοκρισία:Greg, PETERS, Peter of Damascus.  Byzantine Monk and Spiritual Theologian (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Studies and Texts 175, 2011), 182 p. + Appendices and Bibliography.Βιβλιοκρισία:Greg, PETERS, Peter of Damascus.  Byzantine Monk and Spiritual Theologian (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Studies and Texts 175, 2011), 182 p. + Appendices and Bibliography

Βιβλιοκριοία: The Orthodox Church in the Arab World 700-1700. An Anthology of Sources. Edited by Samuel Noble and Alexander Treiger (Northern Illinois University Press, 2014)

Βιβλιοκριοία: The Orthodox Church in the Arab World 700-1700. An Anthology of Sources. Edited by Samuel Noble and Alexander Treiger (Northern Illinois University Press, 2014), pp. 375The Orthodox Church in the Arab World 700-1700. An Anthology of Sources. Edited by Samuel Noble and Alexander Treiger (Northern Illinois University Press, 2014)

ByzRev 04.2022.018: Vicky Foskolou – Sophia Kalopissi-Verti (eds), Intercultural Encounters in Medieval Greece after 1204.: Intercultural Encounters in Medieval Greece after 1204. The Evidence of Art and Material Culture (Byzantioς. Studies in Byzantine History and Civilization 19). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers 2022.

  Vicky Foskolou – Sophia Kalopissi-Verti (eds), Intercultural Encounters in Medieval Greece after 1204. The Evidence of Art and Material Culture (Byzantioς. Studies in Byzantine History and Civilization 19). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers 2022. 572 pp. – ISBN 978-2-503-59850-5 (€ 95.00 excl. VAT)  Vicky Foskolou – Sophia Kalopissi-Verti (eds), Intercultural Encounters in Medieval Greece after 1204. The Evidence of Art and Material Culture (Byzantioς. Studies in Byzantine History and Civilization 19). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers 2022. 572 pp. – ISBN 978-2-503-59850-5 (€ 95.00 excl. VAT

The Earliest Spanish Christian Views of Islam

Twenty-five years ago, in the first of three now well-known lectures, R. W. Southern noted the “extremely slow penetration of Islam as an intellectually identifiable fact in Western minds.” Southern attributed this delay to the distance that separated Latin Christians from the Muslims. In the case of the northern Europeans, this distance was physical. After Poitiers, the military threat posed by Islam receded and assumed its place as only one among many peripheral challenges to the authority of the Carolingians and their successors. For the Christians of Spain, who lived within the boundaries of Islam, the distance was psychological. Out of their fear of cultural absorption, they closed their minds to the new religion and reacted with hostility against it. As a result, according to Southern, the first generations of Latin ecclesiastics who were in a position to assess Islam either did not bother to comprehend it or did so using only the most distorted information available, depending on which side of the Pyrenees they lived on