Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Acknowledgements IX
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Evil
6. Chapter 1 The Worst of All Heresies: Polemical Responses to Waldensianism ca. 1200 – 1400 21
7. Chapter 2 Richard FitzRalph on the Religious Other: Avignonian Intersections between Christians, Muslims, and Tatars 41
8. Chapter 3 Black People and Apes: ‘Racism’ in Moses Maimonides 55
9. Chapter 4 Law without Reason: The Use of Medieval Facts as Justification for Politics in Modern Russia 73
10. Part II: Toleration
11. Chapter 5 Back to Pre-Constantinian Ethos? Transformation of Christian Identity under the Islamic Rule in Abbasid Times 93
12. Chapter 6 A Two-Way Process: Encounters between Lutheran Authorities and Anabaptists in Sixteenth-Century Württemberg 113
13. Chapter 7 Introspection and Other Faiths in the Medieval Latin Tradition 133
14. Chapter 8 Thinking the Foundations of Toleration: Nicolas of Cusa on Individuation, Alterity, and Diversity in Human Customs 151
15. Chapter 9 Dimensions of Toleration in the Political Theory of Johannes Althusius 171
16. Chapter 10 How to Translate Religious Concepts? Answers from Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Medieval Iberian Historians 193
17. Part III: Altruism
18. Chapter 11 From Charity to Rights: Theological and Legal Perspectives on Poor Relief in the Middle Ages 211
19. Chapter 12 Encountering Others in Medieval Ethics: The Case of Thomas Aquinas 231
20. Chapter 13 Justice, Dignity, and the Care of the Others: Pedro de Ledesma, True Interpreter of Thomas Aquinas 245
21. Chapter 14 Hope as a Social Emotion in Late Medieval Philosophical Theology 261
22. Contributors 285
23. Index 287