Entangled Histories : Knowledge, Authority, and Jewish Culture in the Thirteenth Century /
Elisheva Baumgarten, Ruth Mazo Karras, Katelyn Mesler.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Intellectual Comm unities and Interactions i n t he Long Thirteenth Century -- Chapter 1. Rabbinic Conceptions of Marriage and Matchmaking in Christian Europe -- Chapter 2. Nahmanides’ Four Senses of Scriptural Signification: Jewish and Christian Contexts -- Chapter 3. Bible and Politics: A Correspondence Between Rabbenu Tam and the Authorities of Champagne -- Chapter 4. Rabbis, Readers, and the Paris Book Trade: Understanding French Halakhic Literature in the Thirteenth Century -- Part II. Secular and Religious Authorities -- Chapter 5. The Madrasa and the Non-Muslims of Thirteenth-Century Egypt: A Reassessment -- Chapter 6. Jews in and out of Latin Notarial Culture: Analyzing Hebrew Notations on Latin Contracts in Thirteenth-Century Perpignan and Barcelona -- Chapter 7. From Christian Devotion to Jewish Sorcery: The Curious History of Wax Figurines in Medieval Europe -- Chapter 8. Nicolas Donin, the Talmud Trial of 1240, and the Struggles Between Church and State in Medieval Europe -- 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 -- Chapter 10. Matter, Meaning, and Maimonides: The Material Text as an Early Modern Map of Thirteenth-Century Debates on Translation -- Chapter 11. Pollution and Purity in Near Eastern Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Crusading Rhetoric -- Chapter 12. Adoption and Adaptation: Judah ha-Levi’s ציון הלא תשאלי לשלום אסיריך in Its Ashkenazic Environment -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments