Patronage, production, and transmission of texts in medieval and early modern Jewish cultures
By: edited by Esperanza Alfonso and Jonathan Decter
Series: Medieval church studies -- volume 34; Medieval church studies -- 34.
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Turnhout, Belgium
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9782503542904; 9782503543161
Subjects: Judaika; Hebrew Printing; Judaism; Publication and distribution; Textproduktion; Books and reading; Authors and patrons; Handschrift; Transmission of texts; History; Jews; Intellectual life; Medieval Manuscripts; Judentum; Arabic Printing; Hebrew imprints; Civilization; Mäzenatentum; Manuscripts; Arabic imprints
Notes: "Medieval and early modern cultural history has witnessed a recent shift from the study of manuscripts and early printed books as vehicles of texts and images towards their study as cultural objects in their own right. Rather than focusing solely on original authorship, scholars have turned to subjects such as the patronage, production, circulation, and consumption of texts."--Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction -- -- I.; title: Approaches to Patronage --; title: Patronage in the Context of Solidarity and Reciprocity: Two Paradigms of Social Cohesion in the Premodern Mediterranean  -- Marina Rustow; title: Models of Patronage in Medieval Spain  -- Eleazar Gutwirth -- II.; title: Patron, Client, and Reader --; title: Some Observations on Jewish Poets and Patrons in the Islamic East: Twelfth-Thirteenth Centuries  -- Joachim Yeshaya; title: The Audiences of Late Medieval Haggadah  -- Katrin Kogman-Appel -- III.; title: Patron-Client Dynamics and the Patron's Image --; title: Jewish Exegetical Works and the Construction of Kingship in Medieval Naples  -- Lucia Finotto; title: Subverting Patronage in Translation: Flavius Mithridates, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, and Gersonides' Commentary on the Song of Songs  -- Michela Andreatta; title: Patronage of the Bible in Sixteenth-Century Spain: A Defence of the Faith or an Attack on Heresy?  -- María Teresa Ortega-Monasterio -- IV.; title: In the Workshop --; title: From the Desks of a Coptic-Muslim Workshop: Paris, BNF, MS Ar. 1 and the Large-scale Production of Luxurious Arabic Bibles in Early Ottoman Cairo  -- Ronny Vollandt; title: Joshua ibn Gaon's Hebrew Bibles and the Circulation of Books in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods  -- Javier del Barco; title: The Patron as Scribe and the Performance of Piety in Perpignan during the Kingdom of Majorca  -- Eva Frojmovic -- V.; title: Christian Patron, Jewish Client --; title: Jews and the Copying of Books in the Iberian Peninsula in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries  -- Gemma Avenoza; title: Luis de Guzmán's Patronage and the Spanish Translation and Commentary of the Bible by Arragel -- Ángel Sáenz-Badillos.