Mercedes García-Arenal is Full Professor at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC, Spain), a position she has held since 1990. Her research focuses on the religious history of Iberia and the Muslim West, particularly on religious minorities: conversion, polemics, messianism, religious dissidence. She is Principal Investigator of the Synergy project EuQu.Gerard Wiegers is Full Professor of History of Religions and Comparative Religion at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely on the Mudejar and Morisco history and religious life and on the history of Muslim and Jewish minorities in Europe in general. He is, in cooperation with Pieter Sjoerd van Koningsveld, preparing a critical edition of the Granada Lead Books.Ryan Szpiech is Associate Professor of Spanish and Judaic Studies in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Department of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. He has published on medieval polemical literature, the history of religious conversion, and the cultural significance of translation between Arabic, Hebrew, and the Romance Languages in the later Middle Ages.

• IntroductionInterreligious Encounters in Polemics between Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Iberia and BeyondMercedes García-Arenal and Gerard Wiegers1 Ne De Fide Presumant Disputare: Legal Regulations of Interreligious Debate and Disputation in the Middle AgesJohn Tolan2 The Brighter Side of Medieval Christian-Jewish Polemical Encounters: Transfer of Medical Knowledge in the Midi (Twelfth–Fourteenth Centuries)Gad Freudenthal3 Better Muslim or Jew? The Controversy Around Conversion across Minorities in Fifteenth-Century CastileAna Echevarría4 The Spirit of the Letter: The Hebrew Inscription in Bermejo’s Piedat RevisitedYonatan Glazer-Eytan5 Forgotten Witnesses: The Illustrations of Ms Escorial, I.I.3 and the Dispute over the Biblias RomanceadasRosa M. Rodríguez Porto6 From Christian Polemic to a Jewish-Converso DialogueJewish Skepticism and Rabbinic-Christian Traditions in the Scrutinium ScripturarumYosi Yisraeli7 The Rabbi and the Mancebo: Arévalo and the Location of Affinities in the Fifteenth CenturyEleazar Gutwirth8 The Virus in the Language: Alonso De Cartagena’s Deconstruction of the “Limpieza De Sangre” in Defensorium Unitatis Christianae (1450)Maria Laura Giordano9 Apologetic Glosses—Venues for Encounters: Annotations on Abraham in the Latin Translations of the QurʾānKatarzyna K. Starczewska10 Vox Populi: Carnal Blood, Spiritual Milk, and the Debate Surrounding the Immaculate Conception, ca. 1600Felipe PeredaIndex

Mercedes García-Arenal is Full Professor at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC, Spain), a position she has held since 1990. Her research focuses on the religious history of Iberia and the Muslim West, particularly on religious minorities: conversion, polemics, messianism, religious dissidence. She is Principal Investigator of the Synergy project EuQu.Gerard Wiegers is Full Professor of History of Religions and Comparative Religion at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely on the Mudejar and Morisco history and religious life and on the history of Muslim and Jewish minorities in Europe in general. He is, in cooperation with Pieter Sjoerd van Koningsveld, preparing a critical edition of the Granada Lead Books.Ryan Szpiech is Associate Professor of Spanish and Judaic Studies in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Department of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. He has published on medieval polemical literature, the history of religious conversion, and the cultural significance of translation between Arabic, Hebrew, and the Romance Languages in the later Middle Ages.

• IntroductionInterreligious Encounters in Polemics between Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Iberia and BeyondMercedes García-Arenal and Gerard Wiegers1 Ne De Fide Presumant Disputare: Legal Regulations of Interreligious Debate and Disputation in the Middle AgesJohn Tolan2 The Brighter Side of Medieval Christian-Jewish Polemical Encounters: Transfer of Medical Knowledge in the Midi (Twelfth–Fourteenth Centuries)Gad Freudenthal3 Better Muslim or Jew? The Controversy Around Conversion across Minorities in Fifteenth-Century CastileAna Echevarría4 The Spirit of the Letter: The Hebrew Inscription in Bermejo’s Piedat RevisitedYonatan Glazer-Eytan5 Forgotten Witnesses: The Illustrations of Ms Escorial, I.I.3 and the Dispute over the Biblias RomanceadasRosa M. Rodríguez Porto6 From Christian Polemic to a Jewish-Converso DialogueJewish Skepticism and Rabbinic-Christian Traditions in the Scrutinium ScripturarumYosi Yisraeli7 The Rabbi and the Mancebo: Arévalo and the Location of Affinities in the Fifteenth CenturyEleazar Gutwirth8 The Virus in the Language: Alonso De Cartagena’s Deconstruction of the “Limpieza De Sangre” in Defensorium Unitatis Christianae (1450)Maria Laura Giordano9 Apologetic Glosses—Venues for Encounters: Annotations on Abraham in the Latin Translations of the QurʾānKatarzyna K. Starczewska10 Vox Populi: Carnal Blood, Spiritual Milk, and the Debate Surrounding the Immaculate Conception, ca. 1600Felipe PeredaIndex

Mercedes García-Arenal is Full Professor at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC, Spain), a position she has held since 1990. Her research focuses on the religious history of Iberia and the Muslim West, particularly on religious minorities: conversion, polemics, messianism, religious dissidence. She is Principal Investigator of the Synergy project EuQu.Gerard Wiegers is Full Professor of History of Religions and Comparative Religion at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely on the Mudejar and Morisco history and religious life and on the history of Muslim and Jewish minorities in Europe in general. He is, in cooperation with Pieter Sjoerd van Koningsveld, preparing a critical edition of the Granada Lead Books.Ryan Szpiech is Associate Professor of Spanish and Judaic Studies in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Department of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. He has published on medieval polemical literature, the history of religious conversion, and the cultural significance of translation between Arabic, Hebrew, and the Romance Languages in the later Middle Ages.

• IntroductionInterreligious Encounters in Polemics between Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Iberia and BeyondMercedes García-Arenal and Gerard Wiegers1 Ne De Fide Presumant Disputare: Legal Regulations of Interreligious Debate and Disputation in the Middle AgesJohn Tolan2 The Brighter Side of Medieval Christian-Jewish Polemical Encounters: Transfer of Medical Knowledge in the Midi (Twelfth–Fourteenth Centuries)Gad Freudenthal3 Better Muslim or Jew? The Controversy Around Conversion across Minorities in Fifteenth-Century CastileAna Echevarría4 The Spirit of the Letter: The Hebrew Inscription in Bermejo’s Piedat RevisitedYonatan Glazer-Eytan5 Forgotten Witnesses: The Illustrations of Ms Escorial, I.I.3 and the Dispute over the Biblias RomanceadasRosa M. Rodríguez Porto6 From Christian Polemic to a Jewish-Converso DialogueJewish Skepticism and Rabbinic-Christian Traditions in the Scrutinium ScripturarumYosi Yisraeli7 The Rabbi and the Mancebo: Arévalo and the Location of Affinities in the Fifteenth CenturyEleazar Gutwirth8 The Virus in the Language: Alonso De Cartagena’s Deconstruction of the “Limpieza De Sangre” in Defensorium Unitatis Christianae (1450)Maria Laura Giordano9 Apologetic Glosses—Venues for Encounters: Annotations on Abraham in the Latin Translations of the QurʾānKatarzyna K. Starczewska10 Vox Populi: Carnal Blood, Spiritual Milk, and the Debate Surrounding the Immaculate Conception, ca. 1600Felipe PeredaIndex