Project Summary: History Homework #1 According to Davidson, why did medieval scholars feel it was a religious duty to study philosophy? Due 11/3 homework #2 Explain the difference between the literary texts and the documents from the Cairo Geniza. What period is best illuminated by the Geniza records? Why is that (the time period covered) fortunate for historians? Due 11/8 Homework #3 How were reactions to the Black Death different in Christian and Islamic lands? According the author, what difference in thinking about Jews explains the fact that there was significantly more anti-Jewish persecution in medieval Christian Europe? How did Jews in Christian and Islamic lands respond differently to instances of persecution? Due 11/18 Homework #4 Who “invented” the view that Jews and Muslims lived harmoniously in the Middle Ages? Why did those historians adopt that view? What circumstances led to the spread of the opposite view? Due 12/1