medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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>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.
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>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.
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Please be careful regarding "cross-fertilisation". The Council of Vienne
(c. 24; Clem. 5. 1. 1) decreed in 1312 that there should be teachers
with sufficient knowledge "Hebraicae, Arabicae et Chaldeae linguarum" at
the Curia and at the universities of Paris, Oxford, Bologna and
Salamanca, to translate books from those languages into Latin and to
teach others in these languages to enable them to convert the
"infidels". The chairs were to be funded by the clergy of each country.
Obviously there were reactions to the decree in England. In 1321 the
bishop of Salisbury levied a tax for the funding of the Hebrew chair in
Oxford, cf:: The registers of Roger Martival, bishop of Salisbury
1315-1330, ed. K. Edwards (The Canterbury and York Society 55, Oxford
1959), vol. 2/1 p. 341-2. As I was looking for something else I did not
follow into the matter. The editor of Conciliorum oecumenicorum decreta
points to a paper by B. Altaner in Zeitschrift fuer Kirchengeschichte
52, 1933, but surely there is more recent research on the topic.
Sorry for answering only now, yours, h.w.
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