Abstract
Vincent Ferrer spent much, if not most, of his life in the city and the Kingdom of Valencia. He belonged to the city’s Christian majority and to the kingdom’s Christian minority—a dominant minority, but a minority nonetheless. Muslims constituted a majority of the kingdom’s population through the four-teenth century and perhaps into the fifteenth.1 About any contacts that Vincent might have had with Valencia’s Jews and Muslims during his life’s first decades, there is no surviving information. Nonetheless, as was the case with his efforts at moral reform and peacemaking, Vincent’s proselytizing did not occur in a vacuum. It was part of a longer history.
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Daileader, P. (2016). Segregation and Conversion. In: Saint Vincent Ferrer, His World and Life. The New Middle Ages. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137532930_6
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