Editing Ramon Llull (section)

====Dialogues====

From early in his career Llull composed dialogues to enact the procedure of the ''Art''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Friedlein |first1=Roger |title=Der Dialog bei Ramon Llull: Literarische Gestaltung als apologetische Strategie |date=2004 |publisher=M. Niemeyer |location=Tübingen |isbn=3484523182}}</ref> This is linked to the missionary aspect of the ''Art''; Llull conceived of it as an instrument to convert all peoples of the world to Christianity, and experimented with more popular genres to make it easier to understand. His earliest and most well-known dialogue is the ''[[Book of the Gentile and the Three Wise Men]]'', written in Catalan in the 1270s and later translated into Latin. It is framed as a meeting of three wise men (a Muslim, a Jew, and a Christian) and a Gentile in the woods. They learn about the Lullian method when they encounter a set of trees with leaves inscribed with Lullian principles. Lady Intelligence appears and informs them of the properties of the trees and the rules for implementing the leaves. The wise men use the trees to prove their respective Articles of Faith to the Gentile (although some of the Islamic tenets cannot be proved with the Lullian procedure), and in the end the Gentile is converted to Christianity. 

Llull subsequently composed many other dialogues. Later in his career, when he became concerned with heretical activity in the Arts Faculty of the University of Paris, he wrote "disputations" with philosophers as interlocutors.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=van Steenberghen |first1=Fernand |title=La signification de l'oeuvre anti-averroiste de Raymond Lull |journal=Estudios Lulianos |date=1960 |volume=4 |pages=113–28}}</ref><ref>Imbach, Ruedi (1987). “Lulle face aux Averroïstes parisiens,” in ''Raymond Lulle et le pays d’Oc''. Toulouse: Privat, pp. 261–82.</ref> He also created a character for himself, and he stars in many of these dialogues as the Christian wise man (for instance: ''Liber de quaestione valde alta et profunda'', composed in 1311).