medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
I've recently joined this list - which I am already enjoying greatly
(the are OTHER people interested in these things??) - so I have only
caught the tail end of this thread. Apologies then if this post is not
strictly relevant to it.
Assuming it was a discussion of traces of Islamic culture in medieval
Europe, the poster might like to know of a medieval English cleric who
had a copy of the Qu'ran. He was Simon Bozoun, Prior at Norwich
Cathedral Priory from 1344-52. The Moslem holy book is listed among the
contents of his 31-volume private library - most of the others in the
collection were, I assume, rather more traditional for a senior
Benedictine in Northern Europe.
I was particularly struck by this as I've always imagined that the main
period of cross-fertilisation between Islam and western Christendom was
the c12, what with Crusades, the 'c12 renaissance', and the Moslem
populations of Sicily and Spain.
Jon Cannon
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