Tim,
I would go one step beyond what you say about Peter and suggest that
these works may have been intended more to reinforce Western Christian
opinions rather than to convert Muslims. The same may beargued about Pius
II's famous letter to Mohammed II, which Pius probably intended to be
seen by Europeans, not by Turks. Nicholas of Cusa, who gets quoted on
the side of dialogue, tends to waver between hope to convert Muslims and
Jews or even to unite them in some common *religio* (probably founded on
Christianity). Juan de Segovia is closer to what Kritzeck wanted to see
in Peter than was Peter himself.
tom izbicki
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