Texts in Transit in the Medieval Mediterranean / / ed. by Y. Tzvi Langermann, Robert G. Morrison.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Asatryan, Mushegh,; Becker, Brian N.,; Capezzone, Leonardo,; Chipman, Leigh,; Elior, Ofer,; Hadromi-Allouche, Zohar,; Küçük, B. Harun,; Langermann, Y. Tzvi,; Morrison, Robert G.,; Sandman, Israel M.,; Visi, Tamás,
• HerausgeberIn: Langermann, Y. Tzvi,; Morrison, Robert G.,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 1 illustration

This collection of essays studies the movement of texts in the Mediterranean basin in the medieval period from historical and philological perspectives. Rejecting the presumption that texts simply travel without changing, the contributors examine closely the nature of these writings, which are concerned with such topics as science and medicine, and how they changed over the course of their journeys. Transit and transformation give texts new subtexts and contexts, providing windows through which to study how memory, encryption, oral communication, cultural and religious values, and knowledge traveled and were shared, transformed, and preserved. This volume broadens how we think about texts, communication, and knowledge in the medieval world.Aside from the editors, the contributors are Mushegh Asatryan, Brian N. Becker, Leonardo Capezzone, Leigh Chipman, Ofer Elior, Zohar Hadromi-Allouche, B. Harun Küçük, Israel M. Sandman, and Tamás Visi.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One. The Role of Oral Transmission for Astronomy Among Romaniot Jews -- Two. Rabbi Yedidyah Rakh on Ezekiel's "I Heard" -- Three. Gradations of Light and Pairs of Opposites -- Four. Cryptography in the Late Medieval Middle East -- Five. Remembering, Knowing, Imagining -- Six. Riccoldo da Montecroce's Epistolae V commentatoriae de perditione Acconis, 1291 as Evidence of Multifaceted Textual Movement in the Eastern Mediterranean -- Seven. The Wheat and the Barley -- Eight. Shiite Underground Literature Between Iraq and Syria -- Nine. Medieval Hebrew Uroscopic Texts -- Ten. The Transmission of Sephardic Scientific Works in Italy -- Eleven. New Medicine and the Ḥikmet- i Ṭabīʿiyye Problematic in Eighteenth- Century Istanbul -- Contributors -- Index of Manuscripts Cited -- Index