Dominion Built of Praise : : Panegyric and Legitimacy Among Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean / / Jonathan Decter.
A constant feature of Jewish culture in the medieval Mediterranean was the dedication of panegyric texts in Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, and other languages to men of several ranks: scholars, communal leaders, courtiers, merchants, patrons, and poets. Although the imagery of nature and eroticism in the pre...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Jewish Culture and Contexts
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (400 p.) :; 12 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Performance Matters: Between Public Acclamation and Epistolary Exchange
- Chapter 2. Poetic Gifts: Maussian Exchange and the Working of Medieval Jewish Culture
- Chapter 3. “Humble Like the Humble One”: The Language of Jewish Political Legitimacy
- Chapter 4. “Sefarad Boasts over Shinar”: Mediterranean Regionalism in Jewish Panegyric
- Chapter 5. “A Word Aptly Spoken”: The Ethics of Praise
- Chapter 6. “A Cedar Whose Stature in the Garden of Wisdom . . .”: Hyperbole, the Imaginary, and the Art of Magnification
- Chapter 7. In Praise of God, in Praise of Man: Issues in Political Theology
- Chapter 8. “May His Book Be Burnt Even Though It Contains Your Praise!”: Jewish Panegyric in the Christian Mediterranean
- Chapter 9. The Other “Great Eagle”: Interreligious Panegyrics and the Limits of Interpretation
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index of Geniza Manuscripts
- Acknowledgments