Yaniv Fox is a senior lecturer of late antique and early medieval history at Bar-Ilan University (Israel), and a member of the I-CORE Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters. Yosi Yisraeli is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Bar-Ilan University.

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• Introduction[Yaniv Fox and Yosi Yisraeli]1. Conversion as a Historiographical Problem: The Case of Zoraya/Isabel de Solís[Ryan Szpiech]Part I: Regulating Conversion2. Conversion on Trial: Toleration of Apostasy and the Trial of Three Converts to Judaism in the Dutch Republic, 1614-5[Alexander van der Haven ]3. Anxieties in Conflict: The Ratto of Anna del Monte[Kenneth Stow]4. Normative Texts as Sources for Conversion to Christianity in Europe[Roy Flechner]5. Royal Policy and Conversion of Jews to Christianity in Thirteenth-Century Europe[John Tolan]Part II: Social Realities of Inter-Religious Conversion6. The Donor and the Gravedigger: Converts to Judaism in the Cairo Geniza Documents [Moshe Yagur]7. Conversion as an Aspect of Master-Slave Relationship in the Medieval Egyptian Jewish CommunityCraig Perry8. Returning Apostates and Their Marital Partners in Medieval Ashkenaz [Ephraim Kanarfogel]9. Conversion and Return to Judaism in High and Late Medieval Europe: Christian Perceptions and Portrayals[Paola Tartakoff]Part III: Narrating Conversion10. Conversion from the Worst to the Best: The Relationship between Medieval Judaism, Islam, and Christianity[Irven Resnick]11. The Role of Preaching in the Conversion to Islam [Linda G. Jones] 12. Between Tyranny and the Commonwealth: Political Discourses and the Framing of Violence against Conversos in the Gesta Hispaniensia of Alfonso de Palencia[Yanay Israeli]13. Converting Bodies, Embodying Conversion: The Production of Religious Identities in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe[Henriette-Rika Benveniste and Giorgos Plakotos]

Yaniv Fox is a senior lecturer of late antique and early medieval history at Bar-Ilan University (Israel), and a member of the I-CORE Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters. Yosi Yisraeli is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Bar-Ilan University.

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• Introduction[Yaniv Fox and Yosi Yisraeli]1. Conversion as a Historiographical Problem: The Case of Zoraya/Isabel de Solís[Ryan Szpiech]Part I: Regulating Conversion2. Conversion on Trial: Toleration of Apostasy and the Trial of Three Converts to Judaism in the Dutch Republic, 1614-5[Alexander van der Haven ]3. Anxieties in Conflict: The Ratto of Anna del Monte[Kenneth Stow]4. Normative Texts as Sources for Conversion to Christianity in Europe[Roy Flechner]5. Royal Policy and Conversion of Jews to Christianity in Thirteenth-Century Europe[John Tolan]Part II: Social Realities of Inter-Religious Conversion6. The Donor and the Gravedigger: Converts to Judaism in the Cairo Geniza Documents [Moshe Yagur]7. Conversion as an Aspect of Master-Slave Relationship in the Medieval Egyptian Jewish CommunityCraig Perry8. Returning Apostates and Their Marital Partners in Medieval Ashkenaz [Ephraim Kanarfogel]9. Conversion and Return to Judaism in High and Late Medieval Europe: Christian Perceptions and Portrayals[Paola Tartakoff]Part III: Narrating Conversion10. Conversion from the Worst to the Best: The Relationship between Medieval Judaism, Islam, and Christianity[Irven Resnick]11. The Role of Preaching in the Conversion to Islam [Linda G. Jones] 12. Between Tyranny and the Commonwealth: Political Discourses and the Framing of Violence against Conversos in the Gesta Hispaniensia of Alfonso de Palencia[Yanay Israeli]13. Converting Bodies, Embodying Conversion: The Production of Religious Identities in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe[Henriette-Rika Benveniste and Giorgos Plakotos]