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 conce...

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