Late medieval Jewish identities
Subtitle: Iberia and beyond
By: edited by Carmen Caballero-Navas and Esperanza Alfonso
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The new Middle Ages; New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780230608337
Subjects: Civilization; Jews; Ethnic relations; Identity
Description: "Taking the Jewish community as a focal point, this book thoroughly explores the various "borders" geographical divides, religious affiliations, gender boundaries, genre divisions that ruled the lives and intellectual production of late medieval Jews"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Carmen Caballero-Navas and Esperanza Alfonso; title: Bloodshed and borders: violence and acculturation in late Medieval Jewish society / Mark Meyerson; title: The identity of Zequiel: conversos, historiography, and familiar spirits / Eleazar Gutwirth; title: Identities in flux: Iberian conversos at home and abroad / Renèe Levine Melammed; title: Polemical strategy and the rhetoric of authority in Abner of Burgos/Alfonso of Valladolid / Ryan Szpiech; title: Jewish women in Ashkenaz: renegotiating Jewish gender roles in northern Europe / Judith R. Baskin; title: Queen for a day: the exclusion of Jewish women from public life in the Middle Ages / Asuncion Blasco Martinez; title: "Only that which I have lost is now mine forever": the memory of names and the history of Jewish and converso women in Medieval Girona / Silvia Planas Marcè; title: 'Arav and Edom as cultural resources of Medieval Judaism: contrasting attitudes toward Arabic and Latin learning in the Midi and in Italy / Gad Freudenthal; title: Science and Jewish identity in the works of Abraham Zacut (1452-1515) / Mariano Gómez Aranda; title: The incorporation of foreign medical literature into the Medieval Jewish corpus / Lola Ferre; title: The Ṣeri ha-yagon (balm for assuaging grief) by Ibn Falaquera: a case of literary crossbreeding / Aurora Salvatierra Ossorio; title: Defining borders: early fifteenth-century Jews from the crown of Aragon in search of their identity / Àngel Sáenz-Badillos; title: The representation of conversos in Bonafed's Dīwān / Arturo Prats; title: Jewish mudejarismo and the invention of tradition / Eva Frojmovic; title: The Jew's face: vision, knowledge, and identity in Medieval anti-Jewish caricature / Sara Lipton