Eight essays, refined from presentations at a workshop and symposium held during the spring semester 2003 at the University of Minnesota look at conflict between Christians and people of other religions--primarily Islam--from the 15th century to the 18th and into the 19th. The topics include a 1455 letter from Juan de Segovia to Jean Germain on countering the threat of Islam, Akbar and House of Religious Assembly in early modern India, violence and the state in 16th-century France, accommodation on the Transylvanian frontier of Christian Europe, a Sino-European religious conflict in the Philippines in 1640, and Roman Catholic conservatism in a new North Atlantic world 1760-1829. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
