Learning in a Crusader City - Intellectual Activity and Intercultural Exchanges in Acre, 1191-1291

Offers an unprecedentedly rich portrait of the vibrant intellectual and intercultural exchanges sparked by the Crusades in thirteenth-century Acre.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Intellectual activity in Acre: socio-cultural characteristics; 2. Acre's Christian and Jewish centres of teaching and learning; 3. Language and translation; 4. Acre as a meeting point of juridical traditions; 5. The study of Islam; 6. Theological exchanges with oriental Christians; Conclusion; Appendix: the relation of the used texts to Acre; Bibliography.

About the author

Jonathan Rubin teaches in the department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology at Bar Ilan University. His research focuses on the cultural and intellectual history of the Latin East.

Summary

Jonathan Rubin explores the intellectual activities and intercultural exchanges that occurred in the city of Acre during the Crusades, drawing on the complete body of evidence from the city. The result is an unprecedentedly rich portrait of a hitherto neglected intellectual centre on the Eastern shores of the medieval Mediterranean.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Rubin, Jonathan (Bar-Ilan University Rubin, Jonathan (Tel-Aviv University) Rubin, Rubin Jonathan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781107187184
• ISBN: 978-1-107-18718-4
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series; Cambridge Studies in Medieval; Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Israel, Europe, HISTORY / Europe / General, Social & cultural history, Middle East, CE period up to c 1500, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Social and cultural history, Middle Eastern history, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, History and Archaeology, Specific wars and campaigns, Crusades