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Making the Medieval Relevant
When scholars discuss the medieval past, the temptation is to become immersed there, to deepen our appreciation of the nuances of the medieval sources through debate about their meaning. But the past informs the present in a myriad of ways and medievalists can, and should, use their research to address the concerns and interests of contemporary society. This volume presents a number of carefully commissioned essays that demonstrate the fertility and originality of recent work in Medieval Studies. Above all, they have been selected for relevance. Most contributors are in the earlier stages of their careers and their approaches clearly reflect how interdisciplinary methodologies applied to Med...
St. Thomas Aquinas and Muslim Thought
St. Thomas Aquinas, the most known medieval philosophical theologian; the stal- wart of scholasticism; the Doctor of Church; and one of the most influential figures in West- ern Christianity, was greatly influenced by Muslim synthetic thought. The gulf between reason and revelation, faith and philosophy or Jesus and Aristotle were wider in Christianity than in Islam. Aquinas bridged that gap with the help of Mus- lim philosophical thought. This work highlights Aquinas’ intersections with the great Muslim philosophers and their impact upon his personality. Aquinas widely quoted Muslim philosophers and theolo- gians, including Ibn Rushd, Ibn Sina, al-Farabi, al-Ghazali and al-Razi and acted ...
Kabbalah in Print
Demonstrates the impact of print culture on the spread of Jewish mysticism, focusing on Kabbalistic study guides by R. Yissakhar Baer of seventeenth-century Prague. How did Jewish mysticism go from arcane knowledge to popular spirituality? Kabbalah in Print examines the cultural impact of printing on the popularization, circulation, and transmission of Kabbalah in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The Zohar, in particular, generated a large secondary literature of study guides and reference works that aimed to ease the linguistic and conceptual challenges of the text. The arrival of printed classics of Kabbalah was soon followed by the appearance of new literary genres—an...
Jewish Mysticism and Kabbalah
Over the past generation, scholars have devoted increasing attention to the diverse forms that Jewish mysticism has taken both in the past and today: what was once called “nonsense” by Jewish scholars has generated important research and attention both within the academy and beyond, as demonstrated by the popular fascination with figures such as Madonna and Demi Moore and the growing interest in spirituality. In Jewish Mysticism and Kabbalah, leading experts introduce the history of this scholarship as well as the most recent insights and debates that currently animate the field in a way that is accessible to a broad audience. From mystical outpourings in ancient Palestine to the Kabbalah Centre, and from attitudes towards gender to mystical contributions to Jewish messianic movements, this volume explores the various expressions of Jewish mysticism from antiquity to the present day in an engaging style appropriate for students and non-specialists alike.
Defining Jewish Difference
Berkowitz shows that interpretation of Leviticus 18:3 provides an essential backdrop for today's conversations about Jewish assimilation and minority identity.
The Violent Pilgrimage
The notion of Christianity as a religion of peace was severely tested during the Middle Ages, when killing in the name of God became a sanctified act. In this book, Tim Rayborn traces the development of the early Crusades, Christian views of war and violence, and its attitudes toward Islam, primarily during the turbulent period of the 11th and 12th centuries (with some attention to earlier centuries). A marked shift in Christian perceptions of its own identity coincided with a considerably more martial and aggressive approach to nonbelievers both inside and outside of Europe. This wide-ranging study includes such topics as the background to the First Crusade, the Knights Templar, Bernard of Clairvaux, the Cistercian Order, the works of Peter the Venerable, apocalyptic hopes and fears, and martyrdom in the context of Christian conflicts with Islam. Focusing on French monastic writings, the book also examines papal documents, Spanish polemics, crusade chronicles, and other works. This is a survey of research on these important subjects, and serves as both a reference work and a point of departure for further study.
Inquisition and Knowledge, 1200-1700
Essays considering how information could be used and abused in the service of heresy and inquisition. The collection, curation, and manipulation of knowledge were fundamental to the operation of inquisition. Its coercive power rested on its ability to control information and to produce authoritative discourses from it - a fact not lost on contemporaries, or on later commentators. Understanding that relationship between inquisition and knowledge has been one of the principal drivers of its long historiography. Inquisitors and their historians have always been preoccupied with the process by which information was gathered and recirculated as knowledge. The tenor of that question has changed ov...
Agents of the People
Analysing parliamentary references to the people, this book provides a more nuanced interpretation of eighteenth-century re-evaluations of democracy. It shows how interaction between parliamentarians and the public sphere in different political cultures produced more modern conceptions of the legitimacy of political power.
Erzählte Oratorik
Deutschsprachige Erzähltexte des Mittelalters verbinden das Problemfeld von Herrschaft und sozialer Ordnung oft mit der Darstellung rednerischer Kompetenz. Für Fürsten und herrschaftsnahe Eliten erscheint Eloquenz als zentrale Bedingung erfolgreichen Regierens. Über den Begriff der ‚erzählten Oratorik‘ untersucht diese Studie die narrative Inszenierung politischer Rede zwischen dem 13. und frühen 15. Jahrhundert, am Beispiel von Ulrichs von Etzenbach Alexanderroman, Ottokars von Steiermark Steirischer Reimchronik und Heinrich Wittenwilers Ring. Die Monografie verbindet Ansätze der germanistischen Mediävistik mit Perspektiven aus der Geschichtswissenschaft, der Rhetorikforschung und der politischen Philosophie. Sie schlägt ein heuristisches Modell vor, das zwischen Darstellung, Repräsentation und Praxis als Untersuchungsdimensionen politischer Oratorik unterscheidet. So wird deutlich: Anders als vielfach angenommen, bricht die Tradition politischer Rede nach der Antike nicht ab – sie entwickelt genuin mittelalterliche Formen.
Eleganz und Performanz
Wie kaum ein zweiter hat sich der Berliner Mediävist Johannes Helmrath in seinen Forschungen dem sprachlichen Ausdruck der Welt sowie des menschlichen Wissens und Wollens gewidmet – und dabei seinen Erkenntnissen stets einen ganz eigenen rhetorischen Glanz verliehen. Kolleginnen und Kollegen ehren den Jubilar deshalb mit diesem Band. Er enthält Beiträge aus den Bereichen 'Humanismus und Renaissance', 'Kirchen- und Konziliengeschichte' sowie , 'Oratorik und repräsentative Versammlungen', auf denen Helmrath sich im Laufe seines Forscherlebens höchstes internationales Ansehen erarbeitet hat.
