The Jews Of Provence And Languedoc

Author : Ram Ben-Shalom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1786941937

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The Jews of Provence and Languedoc by Ram Ben-Shalom Pdf

This exhaustive history of Provençal Jewry examines the key aspects of Jewish life in Provence--cultural, religious, political, economic, and literary--over some 1,500 years. The Jewish response to the Albigensian Crusade, the annexation of Languedoc by the Kingdom of France, and other historical events was an unprecedented cultural florescence that was to have far-reaching and enduring consequences. Crucially, it was in Provence that philosophical and scientific works were first translated from Arabic to Hebrew, allowing the Jews of Christian Europe to absorb and assimilate the achievements of the Jews of Muslim Spain. The emergence in Provence of the Maimonidean-Aristotelian philosophical school sent spiritual shock waves throughout the Jewish world, and it was also in Provence that the first esoteric teachings of kabbalah emerged. But cultural innovations went beyond the religious and philosophical: secular Hebrew poetry written by Jewish troubadors offered a glimpse of Jewish merrymaking, romanticism, and eroticism that drew criticism from the rabbis, and even allowed women's voices to be assertively raised in the public sphere. First published in Hebrew in 2017 to scholarly acclaim, this is a seminal examination of the crucial role of the Jews of Provence in shaping medieval Jewish culture in the Mediterranean basin.

Author : Ram Ben-Shalom
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 875 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781835533406

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The Jews of Provence and Languedoc by Ram Ben-Shalom Pdf

This exhaustive history of Provençal Jewry examines the key aspects of Jewish life in Provence over some 1,500 years of cultural florescence with far-reaching consequences. A seminal examination of the crucial role of the Jews of Provence in shaping medieval Jewish culture in the Mediterranean basin.

Author : Ram Ben-Shalom
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789627787

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Medieval Jews and the Christian Past by Ram Ben-Shalom Pdf

The focus in this book is on the historical consciousness of the Jews of Spain and southern France in the late Middle Ages, and specifically on their perceptions of Christianity and Christian history and culture. Ram Ben-Shalom offers a detailed analysis of Jews' exposure to the history of those among whom they lived. He shows that the Jews in these southern European lands experienced a relatively open society that was sensitive to and knowledgeable about voices from other cultures, and that this had significant consequences for shaping Jewish historical consciousness.

Author : Catholic Church. Pope,Shlomo Simonsohn,Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Publisher : Presses Univ. Septentrion
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Bulls, Papal
ISBN : 0888440944

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The Apostolic See and the Jews by Catholic Church. Pope,Shlomo Simonsohn,Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Pdf

Author : Gregg Stern
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135975616

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Philosophy and Rabbinic Culture by Gregg Stern Pdf

Philosophy and Rabbinic Culture is a study of the great, and curiously underappreciated, engagement of a Medieval European Jewish community with the philosophic tradition. This lucid description of the Languedocian Jewish community's multigenerational cultivation of - and acculturation to - scientific and philosophic teachings into Judaism fulfils a major desideratum in Jewish cultural history. In the first detailed account of this long-forgotten Jewish community and its cultural ideal, the author gives an expansive reappraisal of the role of the philosophic interpretation in rabbinic culture and medieval Judaism. Looking at how the cultural ideal of Languedocian Jewry continued to develop and flourish throughout the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, with particular reference to the literary style and religious teaching of the great Talmudist, Menahem ha-Meiri, Stern explores issues such as Meiri’s theory of "civilized religions", including Christianity and Islam, controversy over philosophy and philosophic allegory in Languedoc and Catalonia, and the cultural significance of the medical use of astrological images. This book will be of great interest to scholars and students of Religion, of Judaism in particular, and of Philosophy, History and Medieval Europe, as well as those interested in Jewish-Christian relations.

Author : Jules Farber
Publisher : Éditions Actes Sud
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-13T00:00:00+01:00
Category : History
ISBN : 9782330018979

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The Pope's Jews in Provence by Jules Farber Pdf

Revealing insight to a little-known chapter of Jewish life in Provence from the 6th century B.C. to over five centuries' protection by popes.

Author : Kathryn Louise Reyerson,John Victor Drendel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9004108505

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Urban and Rural Communities in Medieval France by Kathryn Louise Reyerson,John Victor Drendel Pdf

This volume provides case studies of the growth of urban and rural communities and their institutions in Languedoc and Provence in the Middle Ages. The importance of a Roman law tradition and the new institutions of the notary and his records are observed in both urban and rural contexts, and interactions between town and country are featured.

Author : Brepols Publishers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0888442238

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In This Land by Brepols Publishers Pdf

Author : Gershom Scholem
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0691020477

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Origins of the Kabbalah by Gershom Scholem Pdf

One of the most important scholars of our century, Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) opened up a once esoteric world of Jewish mysticism, the Kabbalah, to concerned students of religion. The Kabbalah is a rich tradition of repeated attempts to achieve and portray direct experiences of God: its twelfth-and thirteenth-century beginnings in southern France and Spain are probed in Origins of the Kabbalah, a work crucial in Scholem's oeuvre. The book is a contribution not only to the history of Jewish medieval mysticism but also to the study of medieval mysticism in general and will be of interest to historians and psychologists, as well as to students of the history of religion.

Author : Norman Roth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136771552

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Medieval Jewish Civilization by Norman Roth Pdf

This is the first encyclopedic work to focus exclusively on medieval Jewish civilization, from the fall of the Roman Empire to about 1492. The more than 150 alphabetically organized entries, written by scholars from around the world, include biographies, countries, events, social history, and religious concepts. The coverage is international, presenting people, culture, and events from various countries in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Medieval Jewish Civilization: An Encyclopedia website.

Author : Cyril P. Hershon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111011057

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Faith and Controversy by Cyril P. Hershon Pdf

Author : Moshe Idel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110598773

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Abraham Abulafia’s Esotericism by Moshe Idel Pdf

This book focuses on Abraham Abulafia's esoteric thought in relation to Maimonides, Maimonideans, and Islamic thought in the line of Leo Strauss' theory of the history of philosophy. A survey of Abulafia's sources leads into an analysis of the esoteric meaning on the famous parable of the three rings, considering also the possible connection between this parable, which Abdulafia inserted into a book dedicated to his student, the 13th century rabbi Nathan the wise, and the Lessing's Play "Nathan the Wise." The book also examines Abulafia's universalistic understanding of the nature of the Bible, the Hebrew language, and the people of Israel (or the Sinaic revelation). The universal aspects of Abulafia’s thought have been put in relief against the more widespread Kabbalistic views which are predominantly particularistic. A number of texts have also been identified here for the first time as authored by Abulafia.

Author : Norman Roth
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351676984

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Routledge Revivals: Medieval Jewish Civilization (2003) by Norman Roth Pdf

First published in 2003, this is the first encyclopedic work to focus exclusively on medieval Jewish civilization, from the fall of the Roman Empire to about 1492. Based on the research of an international, multidisciplinary team of specialist contributors, the more than 150 alphabetically organized entries, written by scholars from around the world, include biographies, countries, events, social history, and religious concepts. The coverage is international, presenting people, culture, and events from various countries in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.

Author : William David Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 54,7 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 : Guido Mensching,Frank Savelsberg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 48,9 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.