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.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Rubin, Rubin Jonathan
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.03.2020
• EAN: 9781316637715
• ISBN: 978-1-316-63771-5
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 360 g
• Illustrations: 1 b/w illus., Raster,schwarz-weiss, Worked examples or Exercises
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series; Cambridge Studies in Medieval
• 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