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Beyond Faith: Belief, Morality and Memory in a Fifteenth-Century Judeo-Iberian Manuscript

Author : Michelle M. Hamilton
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004282735

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Beyond Faith: Belief, Morality and Memory in a Fifteenth-Century Judeo-Iberian Manuscript by Michelle M. Hamilton Pdf

In Beyond Faith: Belief, Morality and Memory in a Fifteenth-Century Judeo-Iberian Manuscript, Michelle M. Hamilton sheds light on the concerns of Jewish and converso readers of the generation before the Expulsion. Using a mid-fifteenth-century collection of Iberian vernacular literary, philosophical and religious texts (MS Parm. 2666) recorded in Hebrew characters as a lens, Hamilton explores how its compiler or compilers were forging a particular form of personal, individual religious belief, based not only on the Judeo-Andalusi philosophical tradition of medieval Iberia, but also on the Latinate humanism of late 14th and early 15th-century Europe. The form/s such expressions take reveal the contingent and specific engagement of learned Iberian Jews and conversos with the larger Iberian, European and Arab Mediterranean cultures of the 15th-century.

The Routledge Companion to Iberian Studies

Author : Javier Muñoz-Basols,Manuel Delgado Morales,Laura Lonsdale
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 941 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781317487302

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The Routledge Companion to Iberian Studies by Javier Muñoz-Basols,Manuel Delgado Morales,Laura Lonsdale Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art account of the field, reaffirming Iberian Studies as a dynamic and evolving discipline offering promising areas of future research. It is an essential tool for research in Iberian Studies.

After the Black Death

Author : Susan L. Einbinder
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812295214

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After the Black Death by Susan L. Einbinder Pdf

The Black Death of 1348-50 devastated Europe. With mortality estimates ranging from thirty to sixty percent of the population, it was arguably the most significant event of the fourteenth century. Nonetheless, its force varied across the continent, and so did the ways people responded to it. Surprisingly, there is little Jewish writing extant that directly addresses the impact of the plague, or even of the violence that sometimes accompanied it. This absence is particularly notable for Provence and the Iberian Peninsula, despite rich sources on Jewish life throughout the century. In After the Black Death, Susan L. Einbinder uncovers Jewish responses to plague and violence in fourteenth-century Iberia and Provence. Einbinder's original research reveals a wide, heterogeneous series of Jewish literary responses to the plague, including Sephardic liturgical poetry; a medical tractate written by the Jewish physician Abraham Caslari; epitaphs inscribed on the tombstones of twenty-eight Jewish plague victims once buried in Toledo; and a heretofore unstudied liturgical lament written by Moses Nathan, a survivor of an anti-Jewish massacre that occurred in Tàrrega, Catalonia, in 1348. Through elegant translations and masterful readings, After the Black Death exposes the great diversity in Jewish experiences of the plague, shaped as they were by convention, geography, epidemiology, and politics. Most critically, Einbinder traces the continuity of faith, language, and meaning through the years of the plague and its aftermath. Both before and after the Black Death, Jewish texts that deal with tragedy privilege the communal over the personal and affirm resilience over victimhood. Combined with archival and archaeological testimony, these texts ask us to think deeply about the men and women, sometimes perpetrators as well as victims, who confronted the Black Death. As devastating as the Black Death was, it did not shatter the modes of expression and explanation of those who survived it—a discovery that challenges the applicability of modern trauma theory to the medieval context.

Love Magic and Control in Premodern Iberian Literature

Author : Veronica Menaldi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000422511

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Love Magic and Control in Premodern Iberian Literature by Veronica Menaldi Pdf

This book explores the complexity of Iberian identity and multicultural/multi-religious interactions in the Peninsula through the lens of spells, talismans, and imaginative fiction in medieval and early modern Iberia. Focusing particularly on love magic—which manipulates objects, celestial spheres, and demonic conjurings to facilitate sexual encounters—Menaldi examines how practitioners and victims of such magic as represented in major works produced in Castile. Magic, and love magic in particular, is an exchange of knowledge, a claim to power and a deviation from or subversion of the licit practices permitted by authoritative decrees. As such, magic serves as a metaphorical tool for understanding the complex relationships of the Christian with the non-Christian. In seeking to understand and incorporate hidden secrets that presumably reveal how one can manipulate their environment, occult knowledge became one of the funnels through which cultures and practices mixed and adapted throughout the centuries.

Iberian Babel: Translation and Multilingualism in the Medieval and the Early Modern Mediterranean

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004513563

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Iberian Babel: Translation and Multilingualism in the Medieval and the Early Modern Mediterranean by Anonim Pdf

Translation and multilingualism are an integral part of Iberian culture, having shaped its literary traditions and cultural production for centuries, contributing to the transmission of knowledge and texts, and to the formation of the religious, linguistic, and ethnic identities.

Unbinding Isaac

Author : Aaron Koller
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780827618435

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Unbinding Isaac by Aaron Koller Pdf

Unbinding Isaac takes readers on a trek of discovery for our times into the binding of Isaac story. Nineteenth-century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard viewed the story as teaching suspension of ethics for the sake of faith, and subsequent Jewish thinkers developed this idea as a cornerstone of their religious worldview. Aaron Koller examines and critiques Kierkegaard's perspective--and later incarnations of it--on textual, religious, and ethical grounds. He also explores the current of criticism of Abraham in Jewish thought, from ancient poems and midrashim to contemporary Israel narratives, as well as Jewish responses to the Akedah over the generations. Finally, bringing together these multiple strands of thought--along with modern knowledge of human sacrifice in the Phoenician world--Koller offers an original reading of the Akedah. The biblical God would like to want child sacrifice--because it is in fact a remarkable display of devotion--but more than that, he does not want child sacrifice because it would violate the child's autonomy. Thus, the high point in the drama is not the binding of Isaac but the moment when Abraham is told to release him. The Torah does not allow child sacrifice, though by contrast, some of Israel's neighbors viewed it as a religiously inspiring act. The binding of Isaac teaches us that an authentically religious act cannot be done through the harm of another human being.

Manual of Judaeo-Romance Linguistics and Philology

Author : Guido Mensching,Frank Savelsberg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-23
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110302271

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Manual of Judaeo-Romance Linguistics and Philology by Guido Mensching,Frank Savelsberg Pdf

This manual provides a detailed presentation of the various Romance languages as they appear in texts written by Jews, mostly using the Hebrew alphabet. It gives a comprehensive overview of the Jews and the Romance languages in the Middle Ages (part I), as well as after the expulsions (part II). These sections are dedicated to Judaeo-Romance texts and linguistic traditions mainly from Italy, northern and southern France (French and Occitan), and the Iberian Peninsula (Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese). The Judaeo-Spanish varieties of the 20th and 21st centuries are discussed in a separate section (part III), due to the fact that Judaeo-Spanish can be considered an independent language. This section includes detailed descriptions of its phonetics/phonology, morphology, lexicon, and syntax.

A Companion to the Queenship of Isabel la Católica

Author : Hilaire Kallendorf
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004521520

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A Companion to the Queenship of Isabel la Católica by Hilaire Kallendorf Pdf

The queenship of the first European Renaissance queen regnant never ceases to fascinate. As fascists to feminists fight over Isabel’s legacy, we ask which recyclings of her image are legitimate or appropriate. Or has this figure taken on a life of her own?

A Companion to Medieval Toledo

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004380516

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A Companion to Medieval Toledo by Anonim Pdf

A Companion to Medieval Toledo. Reconsidering the Canons explores the limits of "Convivencia" through new and problematized readings and initiates the non-specialist into the historical, cultural, and religious complexity of the iconic city.

Reading Jewish History in the Renaissance

Author : Nadia Zeldes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498573429

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Reading Jewish History in the Renaissance by Nadia Zeldes Pdf

Using the Hebrew Book of Josippon as a prism, this study analyzes the dialogue surrounding Jewish history among Renaissance humanists. Notwithstanding its focus on the Renaissance, the author’s analysis extends to the consumption of Josippon in the High Middle Ages and into interpretations by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century humanists. With a focus on both Christian and Jewish discourse, the author examines the mythical and historical narratives that developed from Josippon.

Forging Communities

Author : Montserrat Piera
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610756426

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Forging Communities by Montserrat Piera Pdf

Forging Communities explores the importance of the cultivation, provision, trade, and exchange of foods and beverages to mankind’s technological advancement, violent conquest, and maritime exploration. The thirteen essays here show how the sharing of food and drink forged social, religious, and community bonds, and how ceremonial feasts as well as domestic daily meals strengthened ties and solidified ethnoreligious identity through the sharing of food customs. The very act of eating and the pleasure derived from it are metaphorically linked to two other sublime activities of the human experience: sexuality and the search for the divine. This interdisciplinary study of food in medieval and early modern communities connects threads of history conventionally examined separately or in isolation. The intersection of foodstuffs with politics, religion, economics, and culture enhances our understanding of historical developments and cultural continuities through the centuries, giving insight that today, as much as in the past, we are what we eat and what we eat is never devoid of meaning.

The Vernacular Aristotle

Author : Eugenio Refini
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108481816

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The Vernacular Aristotle by Eugenio Refini Pdf

The first study of the reception of Aristotle in Medieval and Renaissance Italy that considers the ethical dimension of translation.

Yolande of Aragon (1381-1442) Family and Power

Author : Zita Eva Rohr
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137499134

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Yolande of Aragon (1381-1442) Family and Power by Zita Eva Rohr Pdf

Yolande of Aragon is one of the most intriguing of late medieval queens who contrived to be everywhere and nowhere, operating seamlessly from backstage and center stage. She is acknowledged as having been shrewd and intelligent - an éminence grise whose political and diplomatic agency secured the throne of France for her son-in-law, Charles VII.

A New Companion to the Libro de buen amor

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004448612

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A New Companion to the Libro de buen amor by Anonim Pdf

The New Companion to the Libro de buen amor provides a platform for exploring current, innovative approaches to this classic poem. It is designed for specialists and non-specialists from a variety of fields, who are interested in investigating different aspects of Juan Ruiz’s poem and developing fruitful new paths for future research. Chapters in the volume show how the book engages with Christian, Jewish and Muslim cultures, and delve into its legacy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Part One sheds light on intersecting cultural milieux, from the Christian court of Castile, to the experience of Jewish and Muslim communities. Part Two illustrates how the poem’s meaning through time can be elucidated using an array of theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches. Contributors are Nora C. Benedict, Erik Ekman, Denise K. Filios, Ryan D. Giles, Michelle Hamilton, Carlos Heusch, José Manuel Hidalgo, Gregory S. Hutcheson, Veronica Menaldi, Simone Pinet, Michael R. Solomon. See inside the book

The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Medieval Iberia

Author : E. Michael Gerli,Ryan D. Giles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351809788

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The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Medieval Iberia by E. Michael Gerli,Ryan D. Giles Pdf

The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Medieval Iberia: Unity in Diversity draws together the innovative work of renowned scholars as well as several thought-provoking essays from emergent academics, in order to provide broad-range, in-depth coverage of the major aspects of the Iberian medieval world. Exploring the social, political, cultural, religious, and economic history of the Iberian Peninsula, the volume includes 37 original essays grouped around fundamental themes such as Languages and Literatures, Spiritualities, and Visual Culture. This interdisciplinary volume is an excellent introduction and reference work for students and scholars in Iberian Studies and Medieval Studies. SERIES EDITOR: BRAD EPPS SPANISH LIST ADVISOR: JAVIER MUÑOZ-BASOLS