Cluny and the Muslims of La Garde-Freinet

Cornell University Press

2015

xi, 160 p.

9780801452994

Introduction: Hagiography and Religious Polemic in the Cluniac Tradition1. News of a KidnappingThe Perils and Promises of Transalpine TravelThe Muslims of La Garde-Freinet"The Hordes of Belial Have Surrounded Me"2. Monks Tell TalesBy Savaage Hands RestrainedThe Preacher's ProwessFulcher and the Great WolfEnter MuhammedInterlude: A Cluniac Mission on the Spanish Frontier3. Peter and the Venerable, Butcher of GodAgainst the Heirs of InquiryA Christian Arsenal against IslamAssailing the Monstrous BeastRecourse to Reason4. Hagiography and the Muslim Policy of Peter the VenerableReasoning with Unbelievers in the Decades around 1100A Reservoir of Eastern CensureNalgod's IndustryConclusion

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