Cultural Intermediaries
Subtitle: Jewish Intellectuals in Early Modern Italy (Jewish Culture and Contexts)
Contributors: David B. Ruderman (Editor); Giuseppe Veltri (Editor)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: March 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780812237795
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; Jewish studies; Judaism - General; Intellectual life; Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science; Religion - Judaism; Jews; Sociology; Italy; Jewish - General; History / Jewish; 17th century; Europe - Italy; 16th century; Congresses; Jewish scholars
First sentence: A peculiar feature of humanism and the Renaissance was the high social prestige attributed to knowledge.