{"id":30,"date":"2011-08-18T13:47:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T17:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/dfreiden\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2025-04-22T13:57:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T17:57:14","slug":"law","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/dfreiden\/law\/","title":{"rendered":"Medieval Religious Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Much of my research focuses on medieval religious laws regarding adherents of foreign religions.  What ideas do such laws communicate about “them” — and about “us”?  What influences these ideas, and how do they change over time?<\/p>\n

Canon Law<\/h2>\n

\u201cJews, Pagans, and Heretics in Early Medieval Canon Law,\u201d in Jews in Early Christian Law: Byzantium and the Latin West, 6th<\/sup>\u201311th<\/sup> Centuries<\/em>, ed. John Tolan et al. (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014), 73\u201391 [link to pdf<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\u201cMuslims in Canon Law, 650\u20131000,\u201d Christian\u2013Muslim Relations: A Bibliographic History<\/em>, ed. David Thomas et al., vol. 1 (Leiden: Brill, 2009), 99\u2013114 [link to pdf<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\u201cMuslims in Western Canon Law, 1000\u20131500,\u201d Christian\u2013Muslim Relations: A Bibliographic History<\/em>, ed. David Thomas et al., vol. 3 (Leiden: Brill, 2011), 41\u201368 [link to pdf<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\u201cMuslims in Eastern Christian Law, ca. 1000\u20131500,\u201d Christian\u2013Muslim Relations: A Bibliographic History<\/em>, ed. David Thomas et al., vol. 4 (Leiden: Brill, 2012), 45-57 [link to pdf<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Islamic Law<\/h2>\n

\u201cChristians in Early and Classical Sunni Law,\u201d in Christian\u2013Muslim Relations: A Bibliographic History<\/em>, ed. David Thomas et al., vol. 1 (Leiden: Brill), 83\u201398 [link to pdf<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\u201cChristians in Early and Classical Shi\u02bfi Law,\u201d Christian\u2013Muslim Relations: A Bibliographic History<\/em>, ed. David Thomas et al., vol. 3 (Leiden: Brill, 2011), 27\u201340 [link to pdf<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Rabbinic Law<\/h2>\n

\u201cConceptions of Muslims and Christians in the Halakhic Literature of the Geonim and Rishonim,\u201d invited seminar presentation delivered at the Goldstein-Goren International Center for Jewish Thought, Ben-Gurion University in the Negev, March 26, 2012 [link to video<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\u201cWalking Side by Side: Engagement with Islamic Law and Theology in Rabbinic Legal Literature,\u201d Muslim World<\/em> 104.4 (2014): 413\u201317 [link to pdf<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Of Related Interest<\/h2>\n

\u201cWhy Jewish Studies Scholars Should Care about Christian\u2013Muslim Relations,\u201d AJS Perspectives<\/em>, Spring 2012: 14\u201315 [link to pdf<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Much of my research focuses on medieval religious laws regarding adherents of foreign religions.  What ideas do such laws communicate about “them” — and about “us”?  What influences these ideas, and how do they change over time? Canon Law \u201cJews, Pagans, and Heretics in Early Medieval Canon Law,\u201d in Jews in Early Christian Law: Byzantium […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1764,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/dfreiden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/dfreiden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/dfreiden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/dfreiden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1764"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/dfreiden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/dfreiden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/dfreiden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/dfreiden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}