Print version: Encountering others, understanding ourselves in medieval and early modern thought. Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter, 2022 300 pages ISBN 9783110748680
Acknowledgements IX // Nicolas Faucher and Virpi Makinen // Introduction — 1 // Part I: Evil // Reima Valimaki // Chapter 1 // The Worst of All Heresies: Polemical Responses to Waldensianism ca. 1200 - 1400 23 // Michael W. Dunne // Chapter 2 // Richard FitzRalph on the Religious Other: Avignonian Intersections between Christians, Muslims, and Tatars — 41 // Marienza Benedetto // Chapter 3 // Black People and Apes: ‘Racism’ in Moses Maimonides 55 Jukka Korpela // Chapter 4 // Law without Reason: The Use of Medieval Facts as Justification for Politics in Modern Russia 73 // Part II: Toleration // Serafim Seppala // Chapter 5 // Back to Pre-Constantinian Ethos? Transformation of Christian Identity under the Islamic Rule in Abbasid Times 95 // Päivi Räisänen-Schröder // Chapter 6 // A Two-Way Process: Encounters between Lutheran Authorities and // Anabaptists in Sixteenth-Century Württemberg 113 // Nicolas Faucher // Chapter 7 // Introspection and Other Faiths in the Medieval Latin Tradition -133 // Susan Gottlöber // Chapter 8 // Thinking the Foundations of Toleration: Nicolas of Cusa on Individuation, // Alterity, and Diversity in Human Customs 151 // Jukka Ruokanen // Chapter 9 // Dimensions of Toleration in the Political Theory of Johannes Althusius 171 // Maria Joana Gomes // Chapter 10 // How to Translate Religious Concepts? Answers from Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Medieval Iberian Historians 193 // Part III: Altruism // Virpi Mäkinen // Chapter 11 // From Charity to Rights: Theological and Legal Perspectives on Poor Relief in the Middle Ages 213 // Isabelle Mandrella // Chapter 12 // Encountering Others in Medieval Ethics: The Case of Thomas Aquinas 231 // Emanuele Lacca // Chapter 13 // Justice, Dignity, and the Care of the Others: Pedro de Ledesma, True // Interpreter of Thomas Aquinas 245 // Ritva Palmen //
Chapter 14 // Hope as a Social Emotion in Late Medieval Philosophical Theology 261 // Contributors 285 // Index 287