Texts in Transit in the Medieval Mediterranean
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Texts in Transit in the Medieval Mediterranean

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Texts in Transit in the Medieval Mediterranean

About this book

This collection of essays studies the movement of texts in the Mediterranean basin in the medieval period from historical and philological perspectives. Rejecting the presumption that texts simply travel without changing, the contributors examine closely the nature of these writings, which are concerned with such topics as science and medicine, and how they changed over the course of their journeys.

Transit and transformation give texts new subtexts and contexts, providing windows through which to study how memory, encryption, oral communication, cultural and religious values, and knowledge traveled and were shared, transformed, and preserved. This volume broadens how we think about texts, communication, and knowledge in the medieval world.

Aside from the editors, the contributors are Mushegh Asatryan, Brian N. Becker, Leonardo Capezzone, Leigh Chipman, Ofer Elior, Zohar Hadromi-Allouche, B. Harun Kßçßk, Israel M. Sandman, and Tamås Visi.

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Yes, you can access Texts in Transit in the Medieval Mediterranean by Y. Tzvi Langermann, Robert G. Morrison, Y. Tzvi Langermann,Robert G. Morrison in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & European History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Penn State University Press
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9780271071091
eBook ISBN
9780271077987
Topic
History
Subtopic
European History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. COVER Front
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction (Y. Tzvi Langermann and Robert G. Morrison)
  6. Notes to Introduction
  7. Chapter 1: The Role of Oral Transmission for Astronomy Among Romaniot Jews (Robert G. Morrison)
  8. Notes to Chapter 1
  9. Chapter 2: Rabbi Yedidyah Rakh on Ezekiel’s “I Heard”: A Case Study in Byzantine Jews’ Reception of Spanish-Provençal Jewish Philosophical- Scientific Culture (Ofer Elior)
  10. Notes to Chapter 2
  11. Chapter 3: Gradations of Light and Pairs of Opposites: Two Theories and Their Role in Abraham Bar Ḥiyya’s “Scroll of the Revealer” (Y. Tzvi Langermann)
  12. Notes to Chapter 3
  13. Chapter 4: Cryptography in the Late Medieval Middle East: From Mosul to Venice? (Leigh Chipman)
  14. Notes to Chapter 4
  15. Chapter 5: Remembering, Knowing, Imagining: Approaches to the Topic of Memory in Medieval Islamic Culture (Leonardo Capezzone)
  16. Notes to Chapter 5
  17. Chapter 6: Riccoldo da Montecroce’s Epistolae V commentatoriaede perditione Acconis, 1291 as Evidence of MultifacetedTextual Movement in the Eastern Mediterranean (Brian N. Becker)
  18. Notes to Chapter 6
  19. Chapter 7: The Wheat and the Barley: Feminine (in)Fertility in Eve and Adam Narratives in Islam (Zohar Hadromi- Allouche)
  20. Notes to Chapter 7
  21. Chapter 8: Shiite Underground Literature Between Iraq and Syria: “The Book of Shadows” and the History of the Early Ghulat (Mushegh Asatryan)
  22. Notes to Chapter 8
  23. Chapter 9: Medieval Hebrew Uroscopic Texts: The Reception of Greek Uroscopic Texts in theHebrew “Book of Remedies” Attributed to Asaf (Tamás Visi)
  24. Notes to Chapter 9
  25. Chapter 10: The Transmission of Sephardic Scientific Works in Italy (Israel M. Sandman)
  26. Notes to Chapter 10
  27. Chapter 11: New Medicine and the Ḥikmet-i ᚏabčʿiyye: Problematic in Eighteenth- Century Istanbul (B. Harun Küçük)
  28. Notes to Chapter 11
  29. List of Contributors
  30. Index of Manuscripts Cited
  31. Index
  32. COVER Back