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Entangled Histories: Knowledge, Authority, and Jewish Culture in the Thirteenth Century provides a multifaceted account of Jewish life in Europe and the Mediterranean basin at a time when economic, cultural, and intellectual encounters coincided with heightened interfaith animosity.
List of contents
Introduction
—Elisheva Baumgarten, Ruth Mazo Karras, and Katelyn Mesler
PART I. INTELLECTUAL COMMUNITIES AND INTERACTIONS IN THE LONG THIRTEENTH CENTURY
Chapter 1. Rabbinic Conceptions of Marriage and Matchmaking in Christian Europe
—Ephraim Kanarfogel
Chapter 2. Nahmanides' Four Senses of Scriptural Signification: Jewish and Christian Contexts
—Mordechai Z. Cohen
Chapter 3. Bible and Politics: A Correspondence Between Rabbenu Tam and the Authorities of Champagne
—Rami Reiner
Chapter 4. Rabbis, Readers, and the Paris Book Trade: Understanding French Halakhic Literature in the Thirteenth Century
—Judah Galinsky
PART II. SECULAR AND RELIGIOUS AUTHORITIES
Chapter 5. The Madrasa and the Non-Muslims of Thirteenth-Century Egypt: A Reassessment
—Luke Yarbrough
Chapter 6. Jews in and out of Latin Notarial Culture: Analyzing Hebrew Notations on Latin Contracts in Thirteenth-Century Perpignan and Barcelona
—Rebecca Winer
Chapter 7. From Christian Devotion to Jewish Sorcery: The Curious History of Wax Figurines in Medieval Europe
—Kati Ihnat and Katelyn Mesler
Chapter 8. Nicolas Donin, the Talmud Trial of 1240, and the Struggles Between Church and State in Medieval Europe
—Piero Capelli
PART III. TRANSLATIONS AND TRANSMISSIONS OF TEXTS AND KNOWLEDGE
Chapter 9. Cultural Identity in Transmission: Language, Science, and the Medical Profession in Thirteenth-Century Italy
—Yossef Schwartz
Chapter 10. Matter, Meaning, and Maimonides: The Material Text as an Early Modern Map of Thirteenth-Century Debates on Translation
—S. J. Pearce
Chapter 11. Pollution and Purity in Near Eastern Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Crusading Rhetoric
—Uri Shachar
Chapter 12. Adoption and Adaptation: Judah ha-Levi's ¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿ in Its Ashkenazic Environment
—Elisabeth Hollender
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
About the author
Edited by Elisheva Baumgarten, Ruth Mazo Karras, and Katelyn Mesler
Summary
Entangled Histories: Knowledge, Authority, and Jewish Culture in the Thirteenth Century provides a multifaceted account of Jewish life in Europe and the Mediterranean basin at a time when economic, cultural, and intellectual encounters coincided with heightened interfaith animosity.
