Colonial Justice And The Jews Of Venetian Crete

Author : Rena N. Lauer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812250886

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Colonial Justice and the Jews of Venetian Crete by Rena N. Lauer Pdf

When Venice conquered Crete in the early thirteenth century, a significant population of Jews lived in the capital and main port city of Candia. This community grew, diversified, and flourished both culturally and economically throughout the period of Venetian rule, and although it adhered to traditional Jewish ways of life, the community also readily engaged with the broader population and the island's Venetian colonial government. In Colonial Justice and the Jews of Venetian Crete, Rena N. Lauer tells the story of this unusual and little-known community through the lens of its flexible use of the legal systems at its disposal. Grounding the book in richly detailed studies of individuals and judicial cases—concerning matters as prosaic as taxation and as dramatic as bigamy and murder—Lauer brings the Jews of Candia vibrantly to life. Despite general rabbinic disapproval of such behavior elsewhere in medieval Europe, Crete's Jews regularly turned not only to their own religious courts but also to the secular Venetian judicial system. There they aired disputes between family members, business partners, spouses, and even the leaders of their community. And with their use of secular justice as both symptom and cause, Lauer contends, Crete's Jews grew more open and flexible, confident in their identity and experiencing little of the anti-Judaism increasingly suffered by their coreligionists in Western Europe.

Author : Ruth MacKay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108498203

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Life in a Time of Pestilence by Ruth MacKay Pdf

Offers an original and holistic approach to understanding the impact of the plague in late sixteenth-century Spain.

Author : Bryan Cheyette
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198809951

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The Ghetto: a Very Short Introduction by Bryan Cheyette Pdf

For three hundred years the ghetto defined Jewish culture in the late medieval and early modern period in Western Europe. In the nineteenth-century it was a free-floating concept which travelled to Eastern Europe and the United States. Eastern European "ghettos", which enabled genocide, were crudely rehabilitated by the Nazis during World War Two as if they were part of a benign medieval tradition. In the United States, the word ghetto was routinely applied to endemic black ghettoization which has lasted from 1920 until the present. Outside of America "the ghetto" has been universalized as the incarnation of class difference, or colonialism, or apartheid, and has been applied to segregated cities and countries throughout the world. In this Very Short Introduction Bryan Cheyette unpicks the extraordinarily complex layers of contrasting meanings that have accrued over five hundred years to ghettos, considering their different settings across the globe. He considers core questions of why and when urban, racial, and colonial ghettos have appeared, and who they contain. Exploring their various identities, he shows how different ghettos interrelate, or are contrasted, across time and space, or even in the same place. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Katherine L. Jansen,Joanna Drell,Frances Andrews
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812206067

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Medieval Italy by Katherine L. Jansen,Joanna Drell,Frances Andrews Pdf

Medieval Italy gathers together an unparalleled selection of newly translated primary sources from the central and later Middle Ages, a period during which Italy was famous for its diverse cultural landscape of urban towers and fortified castles, the spirituality of Saints Francis and Clare, and the vernacular poetry of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. The texts highlight the continuities with the medieval Latin West while simultaneously emphasizing the ways in which Italy was exceptional, particularly for its cities that drove Mediterranean trade, its new communal forms of government, the impact of the papacy's temporal claims on the central peninsula, and the richly textured religious life of the mainland and its islands. A unique feature of this volume is its incorporation of the southern part of the peninsula and Sicily—the glittering Norman court at Palermo, the multicultural emporium of the south, and the kingdoms of Frederick II—into a larger narrative of Italian history. Including Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, and Lombard sources, the documents speak in ethnically and religiously differentiated voices, while providing wider chronological and geographical coverage than previously available. Rich in interdisciplinary texts and organized to enable the reader to focus by specific region, topic, or period, this is a volume that will be an essential resource for anyone with a professional or private interest in the history, religion, literature, politics, and built environment of Italy from ca. 1000 to 1400.

Author : William Miller
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 703 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : History
ISBN : 9785877172081

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The Latins in the Levant by William Miller Pdf

Author : William David Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521219299

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The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 2, The Hellenistic Age by William David Davies Pdf

Vol. 4 covers the late Roman period to the rise of Islam. Focuses especially on the growth and development of rabbinic Judaism and of the major classical rabbinic sources such as the Mishnah, Jerusalem Talmud, Babylonian Talmud and various Midrashic collections.

Author : Elizabeth Horodowich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107150874

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The Venetian Discovery of America by Elizabeth Horodowich Pdf

Demonstrates how Venetian newsmongers played a crucial yet heretofore unrecognized role in the invention of America.

Author : Michael Mitterauer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226532387

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Why Europe? by Michael Mitterauer Pdf

Why did capitalism and colonialism arise in Europe and not elsewhere? Why were parliamentarian and democratic forms of government founded there? What factors led to Europe’s unique position in shaping the world? Thoroughly researched and persuasively argued, Why Europe? tackles these classic questions with illuminating results. Michael Mitterauer traces the roots of Europe’s singularity to the medieval era, specifically to developments in agriculture. While most historians have located the beginning of Europe’s special path in the rise of state power in the modern era, Mitterauer establishes its origins in rye and oats. These new crops played a decisive role in remaking the European family, he contends, spurring the rise of individualism and softening the constraints of patriarchy. Mitterauer reaches these conclusions by comparing Europe with other cultures, especially China and the Islamic world, while surveying the most important characteristics of European society as they took shape from the decline of the Roman empire to the invention of the printing press. Along the way, Why Europe? offers up a dazzling series of novel hypotheses to explain the unique evolution of European culture.

Author : Benjamin Braude
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Pub
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1588268659

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Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire by Benjamin Braude Pdf

How did the vast Ottoman empire, stretching from the Balkans to the Sahara, endure for more than four centuries despite its great ethnic and religious diversity? The classic work on this plural society, the two-volume Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire, offered seminal reinterpretations of the empire¿s core institutions and has sparked more than a generation of innovative work since it was first published in 1982. This new, abridged, and reorganized edition, with a substantial new introduction and bibliography covering issues and scholarship of the past thirty years, has been carefully designed to be accessible to a wider readership.

Author : Erik Grimmer-Solem
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108483827

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Learning Empire by Erik Grimmer-Solem Pdf

The First World War marked the end point of a process of German globalization that began in the 1870s. Learning Empire looks at German worldwide entanglements to recast how we interpret German imperialism, the origins of the First World War, and the rise of Nazism.

Author : E. H. Gombrich
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300213973

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A Little History of the World by E. H. Gombrich Pdf

E. H. Gombrich's Little History of the World, though written in 1935, has become one of the treasures of historical writing since its first publication in English in 2005. The Yale edition alone has now sold over half a million copies, and the book is available worldwide in almost thirty languages. Gombrich was of course the best-known art historian of his time, and his text suggests illustrations on every page. This illustrated edition of the Little History brings together the pellucid humanity of his narrative with the images that may well have been in his mind's eye as he wrote the book. The two hundred illustrations—most of them in full color—are not simple embellishments, though they are beautiful. They emerge from the text, enrich the author's intention, and deepen the pleasure of reading this remarkable work. For this edition the text is reset in a spacious format, flowing around illustrations that range from paintings to line drawings, emblems, motifs, and symbols. The book incorporates freshly drawn maps, a revised preface, and a new index. Blending high-grade design, fine paper, and classic binding, this is both a sumptuous gift book and an enhanced edition of a timeless account of human history.

Author : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : History
ISBN : 9781465592736

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The Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Pdf

Author : Martin Borýsek
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004547421

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Jewish Communal Autonomy and Institutional Memory in Venetian Crete by Martin Borýsek Pdf

In the first book-length study of Takkanot Kandiyah, Martin Borýsek analyses this fascinating corpus of Hebrew texts written between 1228 –1583 by the leaders of the Jewish community in Candia, the capital of Venetian Crete. Collected in the 16th century by the Cretan Jewish historian Elijah Capsali, the communal byelaws offer a unique perspective on the history of a vibrant, culturally diverse Jewish community during three centuries of Venetian rule. As well as confronting practical problems such as deciding whether Christian wine can be made kosher by adding honey, or stopping irresponsible Jewish youths disturbing religious services by setting off fireworks in the synagogue, Takkanot Kandiyah presents valuable material for the study of communal autonomy and institutional memory in pre-modern Jewish society.

Author : Nathaniel Berman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004386198

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Divine and Demonic in the Poetic Mythology of the Zohar by Nathaniel Berman Pdf

Divine and Demonic in the Poetic Mythology of the Zohar offers a new interpretation of the Kabbalistic “Other Side,” exploring the intimacies and antagonisms of divine and demonic, and showing how the Zoharic literature contributes to thinking about alterity generally.

Author : Lyndel V. Prott
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789231041280

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Witnesses to History by Lyndel V. Prott Pdf

This Compendium gives an outline of the historical, philosophical and ethical aspects of the return of cultural objects (e.g. cultural objects displaced during war or in colonial contexts), cites past and present cases (Maya Temple Facade, Nigerian Bronzes, United States of America v. Schultz, Parthenon Marbles and many more) and analyses legal issues (bona fide, relevant UNESCO and UNIDROIT Conventions, Supreme Court Decisions, procedure for requests etc.). It is a landmark publication that bears testament to the ways in which peoples have lost their entire cultural heritage and analyses the issue of its return and restitution by providing a wide range of perspectives on this subject. Essential reading for students, specialists, scholars and decision-makers as well as those interested in these topics.