Beyond Faith: Belief, Morality and Memory in a Fifteenth-Century Judeo-Iberian Manuscript

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

In Beyond Faith: Belief, Morality and Memory in a Fifteenth-Century Judeo-Iberian Manuscript, Michelle M. Hamilton sheds light on the concerns of Jewish and converso readers of the generation before the Expulsion. Using a mid-fifteenth-century collection of Iberian vernacular literary, philosophical and religious texts (MS Parm. 2666) recorded in Hebrew characters as a lens, Hamilton explores how its compiler or compilers were forging a particular form of personal, individual religious belief, based not only on the Judeo-Andalusi philosophical tradition of medieval Iberia, but also on the Latinate humanism of late 14th and early 15th-century Europe. The form/s such expressions take reveal the contingent and specific engagement of learned Iberian Jews and conversos with the larger Iberian, European and Arab Mediterranean cultures of the 15th-century.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-11-14
Mått:155 x 235 x 26 mm
Vikt:671 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World
Antal sidor:308
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004277373

Utforska kategorier

Historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion
Judendom inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Michelle M. Hamilton, Ph.D. (2001), University of California, Berkeley, is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She has published extensively of the literatures and cultures of medieval Iberia, including Representing Others in Medieval Iberia (Palgrave, 2007). She is co-editor of the forthcoming In and Of the Mediterranean: Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Studies (Vanderbilt, 2014).

Recensioner i media

"...Along with the contemporary scholars whom Hamilton frequently cites, her book provides a wide and deep understanding of the figures on whom the discussion touches. Her intention and execution are excellent... Hamilton has restored to Iberian history a distinctive group of influential scholars whom biographical study long missed."Arthur M. Lesley (Independant Scholar), Renaissance Quarterly, Volume LXIX, No. 1

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements ixList of Illustrations xiIntroduction xii1 Prooftexts: God and Knowledge in the Visión deleitable 12 The Polemics of Sacrifice: Isaac and “Nuestro Padre” Abraham 583 Material and Translation: The Jewish Tradition and Fifteenth-Century Humanism 884 The Art of Memory and Forgetting: The Judeo-Andalusi and Scholastic Traditions 1365 The Wisdom of Seneca: Humanism and the Jews 1666 The Place of the Dead: The Vernacular Dance of Death and the Legacy of the Judeo-Iberian Middle Ages 205Conclusion: Textual Truths 249Bibliography 255Index 289