Late medieval Jewish identities: Iberia and beyond

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. MARIA ESPERENZA ALFONSO Ramon y Cajal Research Fellow in the Department of Hebrew and Aramaic Studies at Universidad Complutense, Spain. CARMEN CABALLERO-NAVAS Research Fellow and Lecturer in the Departamento de Estudios Semíticos, Área de Hebreo Facultad de Filosofía y Letras at Universidad de Granada, Spain. INDICE: Introduction; 'C.Caballero-Navas '&' E.Alfonso' PART I: ON BORDERSAND BOUNDARIES - Bloodshed and Borders: Violence and Acculturation in Late Medieval Jewish Society; 'M.Meyerson' - The Identity of Zequiel: Conversos, Historiography, and Familiar Spirits; 'E.Gutwirth' - PART II: 'CONVERSO' IDENTITY - Identities in Flux: Iberian Conversos at Home and Abroad; 'R.Levine Melammed' - Polemical Strategy and the Rhetoric of Authority in Abner of Burgos/Alfonso of Valladolid; 'R.Szpiech' - PART III: FEMALE IDENTITY - Jewish Women in Ashkenaz: Renegotiating Jewish Gender Roles in Northern Europe; 'J.R.Baskin' - Queen for a Day: The Exclusion of Jewish Women From Public Life in the Middle Ages; 'A.Blasco Martínez' - '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; S.Planas Marcé - PART IV: IS THERE A SENSE OF OTHERNESS IN THE SCIENCES?- Arav and Edom as Cultural Resources of Medieval Judaism: Contrasting Attitudes Toward Arabic and Latin Learning in the Midi and in Italy; 'G.Freudenthal'- Science and Jewish Identity in the Works of Abraham Zacut (1452b 1515); 'M.Gómez Aranda' - The Incorporation of Foreign Medical Literature into the Medieval Jewish Corpus; 'L.Ferre' - PART V: REPRESENTATION OF OTHERNESS AND CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY IN LITERATURE - The Seri ha-yagon [Balm for Assuaging Grief]by Ibn Falaquera: A Case of Literary Crossbreeding; 'A.Salvatierra Ossorio' -Defining Borders: Early Fifteenth-Century Jews from the Crown of Aragon in Search of Their Identity; 'Á.Sáenz-Badillos' - The Representation of Conversos in Bonafed's 'Diwan; A.Prats' - PART VI: REPRESENTATION OF OTHERNESS AND CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY IN THE VISUAL ARTS - Jewish Mudejarismo and the Invention of Tradition; 'E.Frojmovic' - The Jew's Face: Vision, Knowledge, and Identity in Medieval Anti-Jewish Caricature; 'S.Lipton'

• ISBN: 978-0-230-60833-7
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 318
• Fecha Publicación: 19/01/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés