Entangled Histories

Elisheva Baumgarten is Professor Yitzhak Becker Chair of Jewish Studies and Professor of Jewish History and History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and author of Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz: Men, Women, and Everyday Religious Observance, available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Ruth Mazo Karras is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. She is author of Unmarriages: Women, Men, and Sexual Unions in the Middle Ages and From Boys to Men: Formations of Masculinity in Late Medieval Europe, , and coeditor of Law and the Illicit in Medieval Europe, all available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Katelyn Mesler is a postdoctoral fellow at the Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat in Munster.

Entangled Histories: Knowledge, Authority, and Jewish Culture in the Thirteenth Century provides a multifaceted account of Jewish life in Europe and the Mediterranean basin at a time when economic, cultural, and intellectual encounters coincided with heightened interfaith animosity.

Introduction—Elisheva Baumgarten, Ruth Mazo Karras, and Katelyn MeslerPART I. INTELLECTUAL COMMUNITIES AND INTERACTIONS IN THE LONG THIRTEENTH CENTURYChapter 1. Rabbinic Conceptions of Marriage and Matchmaking in Christian Europe—Ephraim KanarfogelChapter 2. Nahmanides' Four Senses of Scriptural Signification: Jewish and Christian Contexts—Mordechai Z. CohenChapter 3. Bible and Politics: A Correspondence Between Rabbenu Tam and the Authorities of Champagne—Rami ReinerChapter 4. Rabbis, Readers, and the Paris Book Trade: Understanding French Halakhic Literature in the Thirteenth Century—Judah GalinskyPART II. SECULAR AND RELIGIOUS AUTHORITIESChapter 5. The Madrasa and the Non-Muslims of Thirteenth-Century Egypt: A Reassessment—Luke YarbroughChapter 6. Jews in and out of Latin Notarial Culture: Analyzing Hebrew Notations on Latin Contracts in Thirteenth-Century Perpignan and Barcelona—Rebecca WinerChapter 7. From Christian Devotion to Jewish Sorcery: The Curious History of Wax Figurines in Medieval Europe—Kati Ihnat and Katelyn MeslerChapter 8. Nicolas Donin, the Talmud Trial of 1240, and the Struggles Between Church and State in Medieval Europe—Piero CapelliPART III. TRANSLATIONS AND TRANSMISSIONS OF TEXTS AND KNOWLEDGEChapter 9. Cultural Identity in Transmission: Language, Science, and the Medical Profession in Thirteenth-Century Italy—Yossef SchwartzChapter 10. Matter, Meaning, and Maimonides: The Material Text as an Early Modern Map of Thirteenth-Century Debates on Translation—S. J. PearceChapter 11. Pollution and Purity in Near Eastern Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Crusading Rhetoric—Uri ShacharChapter 12. Adoption and Adaptation: Judah ha-Levi's ¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿ in Its Ashkenazic Environment—Elisabeth HollenderNotesList of ContributorsIndexAcknowledgments