... often continued to explore and prize the many achievements of the vanquished Muslims. This article summarizes the development, during the medieval period, of such positive Christian attitudes toward Islam. Copyright © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 Islamophilia xenophilia xenophobia al...

.... But parrhesia also was prized in the more private arena of the philosophical schools, where it was associated with the art of moral guidance. The philosophers were united in regarding frank criticism as the mark of true friendship. The consensus among them appears to have been that frank criticism was best...

...Francis X. Clooney, SJ This essay explores a certain kind of uncertainty, a fuzziness, that occurs in inter-religious study where the religions involved both highly prize clarity, truth, and specific commitments. Reading that crosses religious borders creates a body of new insights and even...

... Europe, and The Art of Conversation. He is professor of cultural history at the University of Cambridge, where he is a fellow of Emmanuel College. Mary Baine Campbell is the author of Wonder and Science: Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe, which received the James Russell Lowell Prize...

... of the Prix Goncourt de la Biographie, the Man Booker International Award for translation, and the translation prize of the French-­American Foundation. His publications include Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: The Amazing Adventure of Translation; Romain Gary: A Tall...

... books include The Dif- fusion of Classical Art in Antiquity; The Greeks Overseas; The History of Greek Vases; and The Relief  Plaques of Eastern Eurasia and China: The “Ordos Bronzes,” Peter the Great’s Treasure, and Their Kin. He received the inaugural Onassis International Prize for Humanities...

... Prize of the American Historical Associa- tion; Marpingen: Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Bismarckian Germany; The Long Nineteenth Century; Populists and Patricians; and Class, Religion, and Local Politics in Wilhelmine Germany. G. W. Bowersock is professor emeritus of ancient history...

... the and Society Musicological American the from prizes book PhilipGossett   Hölderlin author of numerous volumes of poetry, translations, and essays, including...

... and Archaeology Emeritus at Oxford University and a fellow of the British Academy. He is the editor of the Oxford His­ tory of Classical Art and the author of The History of Greek Vases and The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity. He has received the Onassis Prize...

..., is the author of Osip Mandelstam and the Modernist Creation of Tradition. Among other awards, she has received the William Riley Parker Prize of the Modern Language Association. Linda Colley, currently the Shelby M. C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton Uni- versity, has also been Colgate...

... the Sun: Jewish Australians on Religion, Politics, and Culture. Joseph Frank’s five-volume biography of Dostoevsky received the National Book Critics’ Circle Award, the James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association, and the Christian Gauss...

... history at the University of California, Berkeley, and A. D. White Professor-­at-­Large at Cornell. He was Slade Professor of Art at Oxford in 1974 –  75. The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany received the Mitchell Prize in art history; his other books...

... is the Montreal, Garand Dominique Culture and Judaism Politics, of Religion, on Australians Jewish Philosophy Levinas’ Creatures: of Covenant MichaelFagenblat Knowledge in published article an “Chronocide,” for Weimar of Prize Essay International Atheism...

... of art history at the University of California, Berkeley, and emeritus professor of the history of the classical tradition at the Warburg Institute, University of London. His book The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany received the Mitchell Prize...

... from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China and Culture, Power, and the State: Rural Society in North China, 1900–1942, for which he received the John K. Fairbank Prize of the American Historical Association and the Joseph R. Levenson Prize of the Association of Asian Studies. He...

..., and Cries in the New Wilderness: From the Files of the Moscow Institute of Atheism, have been trans- lated into fourteen languages. He is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature at Emory University and recipient of the Andrei Belyi Prize...

...: Moral Choice in Private and Public Life, for which she received the George Orwell Award. J. M. Coetzee received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003 and has twice been recipi- ent of the Booker Prize. His many works of fiction and nonfiction include Foe...

... Art and author of, most recently, The Archeology of Nostalgia and The World of Ancient Art. He is a recipient of the Onassis Foun- dation International Prize for Humanities and the British Academy’s Kenyon Medal for Classical Studies. Steven D. Brown is Harrington Professor of Chemistry...

..., and Their Kin. He received the inaugural Onassis International Prize for Humanities in 2009. Charles Burnett, professor of the history of Islamic influences in Europe at the Warburg Institute and a fellow of the British Academy, is the author of The Introduction of Arabic Learning into England; Magic...

... Fictions. She is also the author of Scraps and teaches creative writing at Brown University. Inga Clendinnen’s books include Dancing With Strangers, which received the Kiriyama Prize for nonfiction; Reading the Holocaust, which was on the New York Times “best...