Beyond Faith : Belief, Morality and Memory in a Fifteenth-Century Judeo-Iberian Manuscript.
Title:
Beyond Faith : Belief, Morality and Memory in a Fifteenth-Century Judeo-Iberian Manuscript.
Author:
Hamilton, Michelle M.
ISBN:
9789004282735
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (353 pages)
Series:
The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World ; v.57
The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Prooftexts: God and Knowledge in the Visión deleitable -- Chapter 2 The Polemics of Sacrifice: Isaac and "Nuestro Padre" Abraham -- Chapter 3 Material and Translation: The Jewish Tradition and Fifteenth-Century Humanism -- Chapter 4 The Art of Memory and Forgetting: The Judeo-Andalusi and Scholastic Traditions -- Chapter 5 The Wisdom of Seneca: Humanism and the Jews -- Chapter 6 The Place of the Dead: The Vernacular Dance of Death and the Legacy of the Judeo-Iberian Middle Ages -- Conclusion: Textual Truths -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
In Beyond Faith Hamilton explores how a collection of fifteenth-century vernacular texts recorded in Hebrew points to a form of personal religious belief shaped in a century of political and social strife, reflecting knowledge of the Judeo-Andalusi philosophical tradition and emerging European humanism.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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