Beyond faith : : belief, morality, and memory in a fifteenth-century Judeo-Iberian manuscript / / by Michelle M. Hamilton.

• Superior document: Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World. Formerly Medieval Iberian Peninsula, Volume 57
• Author: Biblioteca palatina di Parma.
• VerfasserIn: Hamilton, Michelle, 1969-
• TeilnehmendeR: Biblioteca palatina di Parma.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : BRILL,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Medieval and early modern Iberian world ; Volume 57.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (353 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In Beyond Faith: Belief, Morality and Memory in a Fifteenth-Century Judeo-Iberian Manuscript , Michelle M. Hamilton sheds light on the concerns of Jewish and converso readers of the generation before the Expulsion. Using a mid-fifteenth-century collection of Iberian vernacular literary, philosophical and religious texts (MS Parm. 2666) recorded in Hebrew characters as a lens, Hamilton explores how its compiler or compilers were forging a particular form of personal, individual religious belief, based not only on the Judeo-Andalusi philosophical tradition of medieval Iberia, but also on the Latinate humanism of late 14th and early 15th-century Europe. The form/s such expressions take reveal the contingent and specific engagement of learned Iberian Jews and conversos with the larger Iberian, European and Arab Mediterranean cultures of the 15th-century.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- 1 Prooftexts: God and Knowledge in the Visión deleitable -- 2 The Polemics of Sacrifice: Isaac and “Nuestro Padre” Abraham -- 3 Material and Translation: The Jewish Tradition and Fifteenth-Century Humanism -- 4 The Art of Memory and Forgetting: The Judeo-Andalusi and Scholastic Traditions -- 5 The Wisdom of Seneca: Humanism and the Jews -- 6 The Place of the Dead: The Vernacular Dance of Death and the Legacy of the Judeo-Iberian Middle Ages -- Conclusion: Textual Truths -- Bibliography -- Index.