Early Medieval Spain. Unity in Diversity, 400–1000 (2E)

THE UMA YVAD REGIME 197 the Umayyad Caliphate. Religion was not a major determining factor in political alliances or in the rela ...

198 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN feelings, he advanced slowly towards it, and having prostrated himself before it, remained for some tim ...

THE UMA YYAD REGIME 199 at Medina Azahara, and in 949 Constantine VII Porphyrogenitos sent, amongst other gifts, a particularly ...

200 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN noted philologist who produced a very influential Hebrew dictionary, the Mahberet. Having in this criti ...

THE UMAYYAD REGIME 201 Hebrew was their liturgical language but by the late tenth century the common speech of the Jewish commun ...

202 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN possible protector if such enforced conversion should be attempted, sought to persuade King Charles the ...

THE UMA YYAD REGIME 203 communities coexisted in sufficient physical proximity in the towns for their religious ideas to be mutu ...

204 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN counts to negotiate with the Muslims may also suggest that Theodemir had not been alone in what he did, ...

THE UMA YYAD REGIME 205 in the Umayyad court, but they were vulnerable by reason of their religion in times of Muslim orthodox r ...

206 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN It was not Muslim rule alone that broke many of the ties that had once linked the Church in Spain to th ...

THE UMAYYAD REGIME 207 the Spanish Church was falling into deviations from orthodoxy under the influence of its new Muslim maste ...

208 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN adopting his human nature. This terminology was criticised by an Asturian monk called Beatus, the proba ...

THE UMAYYAD REGIME 209 little controversy. The ninth-century writer Paul Alvar of Cordoba asserted that a Bishop Teudula of Sevi ...

210 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN primatial authority of Toledo.^62 Such a view has little foundation. Toledo remained the primatial see, ...

THE UMA YYAD REGIME 211 commentator, Ibn Sa'id, wrote of it: 'The Moslem inhabitants of Andalus being either Arabs or Mustarabs, ...

212 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN service to become a monk. Three years later, in 851, he went down to the city and persuaded the qadi pu ...

THE UMAYYAD REGIME 213 had important consequences for the Christian community in Cordoba. Being unable to leave the peninsula as ...

214 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN their deaths in Huesca, all of the executions took place in Cordoba, though not all of the victims were ...

THE UMAYYAD REGIME 215 became divided, with the boys retaining the paternal faith while the daughters secretly adopted their mot ...

216 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN predecessors. Likewise the blandishments and apparent worldly wis- dom of the Muslim qadis and official ...