Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom c. 1050–1614 (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks (Paperback)) - Softcover

Through crusades and expulsions Muslim communities survived for over 500 years and thrived in medieval Europe. This is the first book to tell the story of how the presence of Muslim communities transformed Europe from architecture to cooking, literature to science, and stimulated Christian society to define itself.

"The time is right for a sustained synthesis of the last few generations' mountain of research on the experience of Muslims under Latin-Christian rule in the Mediterranean lands. Brian Catlos has accomplished that difficult feat impressively in this volume, but much more as well. Onofferalsoarehis own extensive knowledge of the vast primary-source base that has undergirded that research, his own unfailingly deft analysis of complex social and cultural realities, and his ever energetic and readable prose, making Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, c. 1050 - 1614 not just an essential summation of Mudejar studies, but a model for future research on this rich topic."
THOMAS E. BURMAN, Department of History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

"Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom is one of the most significant works on Christian-Muslim relations to have been published in the past 25 years. The book is original and scholarly, and its conclusions are wise."
SIMON BARTON, Department of History, University of Exeter

"This is the first monograph that analyzes the Muslim communities of Medieval Latin Christendom. Brian Catlos combines a focus on the diversity of experiences of these minorities in Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Hungary with insightful discussions of general traits that shaped Islamic societies across medieval Europe. Making excellent use of the explosion of academic studies into this field of the last years on the one hand, and showing a passion for pioneering work on archival documents and manuscript sources on the other, Catlos brings the study of the economic, social, cultural and religious life of these minorities a major step forward."
GERARD WIEGERS, Professor of Religious Studies, University of Amsterdam and Visiting Research Fellow, Käte Hamburger Kolleg, Ruhr University Bochum

"The first modern scholarly work on this subject in any language, Brian Catlos's magisterial new book is likely to command its field for a long while to come. Well known for his studies of religious minorities in medieval Spain, Catlos here not only synthesizes an immense literature on mudéjar societies, but writes with equal authority on Italy, Hungary, the Crusader States, and indeed everywhere that Muslim subalterns, slaves, or captives were to be found within medieval Latin Europe. In its range, learning, archival depth, clarity, and vigor, this is an astonishing achievement."
PEREGRINE HORDEN, Professor in Medieval History, Royal Holloway University of London