Medieval History and Literature
Bridging Worlds
Poetry and Philosophy in the Works of Immanuel of Rome
A radical revisitation of Immanuel of Rome’s celestial tour, Mahberet Ha-Tofet Ve-ha-‘Eden.
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ISBN: 9780814350362
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ISBN: 9780814350355
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ISBN: 9780814350379
Sepher Yosippon
A Tenth-Century History of Ancient Israel
The seminal medieval history of the Second Commonwealth period of ancient Jewish history.
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ISBN: 9780814349441
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ISBN: 9780814349434
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ISBN: 9780814349458
Brothers from Afar
Rabbinic Approaches to Apostasy and Reversion in Medieval Europe
Revisionist approach to a status of apostates in medieval European rabbinic thought.
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ISBN: 9780814340288
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ISBN: 9780814348246
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ISBN: 9780814340295
Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe
Explores Jewish criminals—alleged and actual—in Medieval Europe and how they’ve been shaped by society.
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ISBN: 9780814345597
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ISBN: 9780814348239
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ISBN: 9780814345603

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101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition
A comprehensive exploration of the Middle Eastern roots of Western narrative tradition.
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ISBN: 9780814347744
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ISBN: 9780814347737
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ISBN: 9780814347751
Tales in Context
Sefer ha-ma'asim in Medieval Northern France
A folkloric research project on Sefer ha-ma’asim.
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ISBN: 9780814342718
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ISBN: 9780814342725
On the Margins of a Minority
Leprosy, Madness, and Disability among the Jews of Medieval Europe
Explores social additudes towards individuals on the margins of medieval European Jewish society.
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ISBN: 9780814339312
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ISBN: 9780814339329

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The Intellectual History and Rabbinic Culture of Medieval Ashkenaz
Examines the intellectual proclivities of twelfth- and thirteenth-century Ashkenazic rabbinic culture as a whole.
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ISBN: 9780814330241
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ISBN: 9780814338025
The En Yaaqov
Jacob ibn Habib’s Search for Faith in the Talmudic Corpus
Examines the origins of the En Yaaqov in the tumultuous medieval period and the motivations of its creator, exiled Spanish rabbi Jacob ibn Habib.
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ISBN: 9780814334805
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ISBN: 9780814335963
Rabbinic Culture and Its Critics
Jewish Authority, Dissent, and Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Times
Examines dissent from rabbinic Judaism in the Middle Ages and Early Modern period to consider it as a category within the history and culture of the Jewish people.
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ISBN: 9780814332375

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Jewish Education and Society in the High Middle Ages
Paperback edition of a favorite text on the literary creativity and communal involvement in the production of the Tosafist corpus.
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ISBN: 9780814333686
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ISBN: 9780814336533
Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals
Eating and Embodiment in Medieval Kabbalah
Examining the mystical practices associated with food in zoharic kabbalah and the ways they inform us about the kabbalistic experience of embodiment.
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ISBN: 9780814350935
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ISBN: 9780814331811
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ISBN: 9780814340035
"Peering Through the Lattices"
Mystical, Magical, and Pietistic Dimensions in the Tosafist Period
Kanarfogel makes available for the first time many passages produced by lesser known tosafists and rabbinic figures and integrates the findings of earlier and contemporary scholarship, much of it published only in Hebrew. "
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ISBN: 9780814325315
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ISBN: 9780814339947
A Middle English Anthology
A reissue of the popular 1969 volume, this anthology includes a wide variety of selections from Middle English literature.
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ISBN: 9780814317983