"Corte Imperial", in Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History, Volume 5 (1300-1500), ed. David Thomas and Alex Mallet, with Juan Pedro Monferrer Sala et alii, Leiden Brill, 2013, pp. 263-267.

Abstract

The Book of “Imperial Court” (Corte Imperial), a copy from the first half of the 15th century of a work written in Portuguese in the 14th century, is the only Portuguese text of religious controversy, in the broadest sense. There are indeed adversus Judaeos literary. However, only the Corte Imperial comprises a wider perspective, ranging from an atheist, pagans (the “gentile philosophers”) and oriental Christians (represented by a Greek bishop), to Jews and Muslims. This text analysis the perception of Islam through the debate between the Militant Church and a al-faqih, in a discourse structured on the Ten Commandments, the seven sacraments and the seven deadly sins.