Title: Entangled histories : knowledge, authority, and Jewish culture in the thirteenth century /
Authors: Baumgarten, Elisheva,; Karras, Ruth Mazo, 1957-; Mesler, Katelyn,
Year: 2017
Subjects: Jews Europe History; Jews Europe Intellectual life.; Judaism Relations Christianity History; Christianity and other religions Judaism History; Christians Europe History; Christians Europe Intellectual life.; Intercultural communication Europe History; Cultural relations History; Europe Ethnic relations History; Europe Intellectual life
Contents: Intellectual communities and interactions in the long thirteenth century. Rabbinic conceptions of marriage and matchmaking in Christian Europe / Ephraim Kanarfogel -- Nahmanides' four senses of scriptural signification : Jewish and Christian contexts / Mordechai Z. Cohen -- Bible and politics : a correspondence between Rabbenu Tam and the authorities of Champagne / Rami Reiner -- Rabbis, readers, and the Paris book trade : understanding French halakhic literature in the thirteenth century / Judah Galinsky -- Secular and religious authorities. The madrasa and the non-Muslims of thirteenth-century Egypt : a reassessment / Luke Yarbrough -- Jews in and out of Latin notarial culture : analyzing Hebrew notations on Latin contracts in thirteenth-century Perpignan and Barcelona / Rebecca Winer -- From Christian devotion to Jewish sorcery : the curious history of wax figurines in medieval Europe / Kati Ihnat and Katelyn Mesler -- Nicolas Donin, the Talmud trial of 1240, and the struggles between church and state in medieval Europe / Piero Capelli -- Translations and transmissions of texts and knowledge. Cultural identity in transmission : language, science, and the medical profession in thirteenth-century Italy / Yossef Schwartz -- Matter, meaning, and Maimonides : the material text as an early modern map of thirteenth-century debates on translation / S.J. Pearce -- Pollution and purity in near eastern Jewish, Christian, and Muslim crusading rhetoric / Uri Shachar -- Adoption and adaptation : Judah ha-Levi's Tsiyon ha-lo tishʼali li-shelom asirayikh in its Ashkenazic environment / Elisabeth Hollender.