Texts in transit in the medieval Mediterranean /
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| Imprint: | University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016] |
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| Description: | vi, 270 pages ; 26 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10863711 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Role of Oral Transmission for Astronomy Among Romaniot Jews
- 2. Rabbi Yedidyah Rakh on Ezekiel's "I Heard": A Case Study in Byzantine Jews' Reception of Spanish-Provencal Jewish Philosophical-Scientific Culture
- 3. Gradations of Light and Pairs of Opposites: Two Theories and Their Role in Abraham Bar Hiyya's Scroll of the Revealer
- 4. Cryptography in the Late Medieval Middle East: From Mosul to Venice?
- 5. Remembering, Knowing, Imagining: Approaches to the Topic of Memory in Medieval Islamic Culture
- 6. Riccoldo da Montecroce's Epistolae V commentatoriae de perditione Accents, 1291 as Evidence of Multifaceted Textual Movement in the Eastern Mediterranean
- 7. The Wheat and the Barley: Feminine (in)Fertility in Eve and Adam Narratives in Islam
- 8. Shiite Underground Literature Between Iraq and Syria: The Book of Shadows and the History of the Early Ghulat
- 9. Medieval Hebrew Uroscopic Texts: The Reception of Greek Uroscopic Texts in the Hebrew Book of Remedies Attributed to Asaf
- 10. The Transmission of Sephardic Scientific Works in Italy
- 11. New Medicine and the Hikmet-i Tabi'iyye Problematic in Eighteenth- Century Istanbul
- List of Contributors
- Index of Manuscripts Cited
- Index
