Luis Giron-Negron – författare

The sources, content and fate of the 15th-century allegorical fable Vision Deleytable are examined from three angles: as a medieval compendium of religious philosophy, as a major influence in Spanish literature, and as an invaluable historical source on Jewish-Christian interactions in medieval Spain.The volume is divided into three sections. The first part considers Vision's didacticism within the Jewish and Christian frames of education in 15th-century Spain. The second part includes a review of Vision's philosophical content as a comprehensive articulation of a rationalist Weltanschauung. The final section traces its intriguing editorial fate and literary influence through the 17th century in Spain, Italy and the Netherlands.It is Vision's first systematic study from the dual perspective of a Hispanist and a Hebraist.

The Arragel Bible—a 15th century Spanish Bible translation with commentary by Moshe Arragel of Guadalajara—is a monumental work of Hispano-Jewish scholarship, an Old Spanish literary classic, and a privileged historical source on Jewish-Christian relations in medieval Iberia. The studies in Volume 1 of our edition in progress review three aspects of this Ibero-Jewish classic by way of introduction: its content and significance for the religious history and literatures of late medieval Spain; a linguistic analysis of Arragel’s Castilian—his lexical choices, morphology, and syntax—in its Ibero-Romance context; and an analytic description of the extant illuminated codex in Madrid.