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- Edition, Translation and Introduction (Reprint 2012)

  • Format
  • Bog, hardback
  • Hebraisk
  • 191 sider

Beskrivelse

Almost five hundred years after his death, Don Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508) remains a legendary figure of Sephardic history, and above all of the Expulsion of 1492. There are numerous"portraits" that have been painted of him by pre-modern and modern scholars. And still we hesitate and cannot discern which is the true one. This first critical edition of Abravanel's Portuguese and Hebrew letters opens a unique window on a complex cultural process of assimilation and dissimulation of humanism among the fifteenth-century Jewish elite. On the one hand, it establishes Abravanel's assimilation of Iberian humanism and of major aspects of the Petrarchian consolatio; on the other hand, it points at the strategies used by him to dissimulate and adapt humanism to Jewish leadership. The duality of Jewish humanists like Don Isaac was obviously a great richness, but it indicated as well their difficulty in expressing themselves coherently and comprehensively in one of the two agoras - Jewish or Christian - in which they were involved as literati and writers. The present edition and study of Abravanel's Portuguese and Hebrew letters sheds a new light on the complexity of this new figure of the Jewish humanist.

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Detaljer
  • SprogHebraisk
  • Sidetal191
  • Udgivelsesdato20-08-2007
  • ISBN139783110194920
  • Forlag De Gruyter
  • Nummer i serien40
  • MålgruppeFrom age 22
  • FormatHardback
  • UdgaveReprint 2012
Størrelse og vægt
  • Vægt475 g
  • Dybde1,7 cm
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    15,5 cm
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