Beyond Faith : Belief, Morality and Memory in a Fifteenth-century Judeo-iberian Manuscript (Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World)

Hamilton, Michelle M.

Brill Academic Pub（2014/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004277373
• DDC分類 892.48208

Full Description

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.

Contents

Acknowledgements ix
List of Illustrations xi

Introduction xii

1 Prooftexts: God and Knowledge in the Visión deleitable 1
2 The Polemics of Sacrifice: Isaac and "Nuestro Padre" Abraham 58
3 Material and Translation: The Jewish Tradition and Fifteenth-Century Humanism 88
4 The Art of Memory and Forgetting: The Judeo-Andalusi and Scholastic Traditions 136
5 The Wisdom of Seneca: Humanism and the Jews 166
6 The Place of the Dead: The Vernacular Dance of Death and the Legacy of the Judeo-Iberian Middle Ages 205

Conclusion: Textual Truths 249

Bibliography 255
Index 289