Medieval Jews and the Christian Past
Medieval Jews and the Christian Past

Author: Ram Ben-Shalom

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2015-10-29

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1789627788

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The focus in this book is on the historical consciousness of the Jews of Spain and southern France in the late Middle Ages, and specifically on their perceptions of Christianity and Christian history and culture. Ram Ben-Shalom offers a detailed analysis of Jews' exposure to the history of those among whom they lived. He shows that the Jews in these southern European lands experienced a relatively open society that was sensitive to and knowledgeable about voices from other cultures, and that this had significant consequences for shaping Jewish historical consciousness.

Hebraic Aspects of the Renaissance
Hebraic Aspects of the Renaissance

Author: Ilana Zinguer

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-08-25

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 9004212558

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This collection of essays offers a fresh look into Christian-Jewish cultural interactions during the Renaissance and beyond. Christian scholars, it is shown, were deeply immersed in a variety of Hebrew sources, while their Jewish counterparts imbibed the culture of Humanism.

The Medieval Chronicle IV
The Medieval Chronicle IV

Author: Erik Kooper

Publisher: Rodopi

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9042020881

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There are several reasons why the chronicle is particularly suited as the topic of a yearbook. In the first place there is its ubiquity: all over Europe and throughout the Middle Ages chronicles were written, both in Latin and in the vernacular, and not only in Europe but also in the countries neighbouring on it, like those of the Arabic world. Secondly, all chronicles raise such questions as by whom, for whom, or for what purpose were they written, how do they reconstruct the past, what determined the choice of verse or prose, or what kind of literary influences are discernable in them. Finally, many chronicles have been beautifully illuminated, and the relation between text and image leads to a wholly different set of questions. The yearbook The Medieval Chronicle aims to provide a representative survey of the on-going research in the field of chronicle studies, illustrated by examples from specific chronicles from a wide variety of countries, periods and cultural backgrounds. The Medieval Chronicle is published in cooperation with the Medieval Chronicle Society.

The Poet's Art
The Poet's Art

Author: Julian Weiss

Publisher: Ssmll

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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A study of literary theory in Castile between 1400 and 1460.

Roman Monarchy and the Renaissance Prince
Roman Monarchy and the Renaissance Prince

Author: Peter Stacey

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-02-08

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1139463063

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Beginning with a sustained analysis of Seneca's theory of monarchy in the treatise De clementia, in this text Peter Stacey traces the formative impact of ancient Roman political philosophy upon medieval and Renaissance thinking about princely government on the Italian peninsula from the time of Frederick II to the early modern period. Roman Monarchy and the Renaissance Prince offers a systematic reconstruction of the pre-humanist and humanist history of the genre of political reflection known as the mirror-for-princes tradition - a tradition which, as Stacey shows, is indebted to Seneca's speculum above all other classical accounts of the virtuous prince - and culminates with a comprehensive and controversial reading of the greatest work of renaissance political theory, Machiavelli's The Prince. Peter Stacey brings to light a story which has been lost from view in recent accounts of the Renaissance debt to classical antiquity, providing a radically revisionist account of the history of the Renaissance prince.