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| Artikel-Nr.: 5667A-9783110194920 Herst.-Nr.: 9783110194920 EAN/GTIN: 9783110194920 |
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| 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. Weitere Informationen: | | Author: | Isaac Abravanel; Cedric Cohen Skalli | Verlag: | De Gruyter | Sprache: | heb |
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| Weitere Suchbegriffe: bücher über religion, Humanismus; Juden/Geschichte; Renaissance; RenaissanceJudaism; Humanism; Letterwritting; RenaissancePortugueseliterature, Juden /Geschichte, Renaissance, Humanismus, Renaissance Judaism, Humanism, Letter writting, Renaissance Portuguese literature |
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