Title: Kabbalah in Italy, 1280-1510
Description: This survey of the history of Kabbalah in Italy represents a major contribution from one of the world's foremost Kabbalah scholars. Idel charts the ways that Kabbalistic thought and literature developed in Italy and how its unique geographical situation facilitated the arrival of both Spanish and Byzantine Kabbalah.
Subjects: Mysticism, Cabala, Judaism, History, Mysticism, judaism, Europe, religion
Places: Italy
People: Menahem ben Benjamin Recanati (13th/14th cent), Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia (1240-ca. 1292)