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Crossing borders : Hebrew manuscripts as a meeting-place of cultures /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Boxel, Piet van, 1940-, Arndt, Sabine, 1978-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Bodleian Library, 2009.
Subjects:
Cultural relations > History > To 1500.
Manuscripts, Hebrew > Europe > History > To 1500.
Science > Europe > History > To 1500.
Jews > Europe > Intellectual life > To 1500.
Jews > Europe > History > To 1500.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreward / Sarah Thomas
  • Introduction / Piet van Boxel
  • From roll to codex / Anthony Grafton
  • The script and book craft in the Hebrew medieval codex / Malachi Beit-Arié
  • Fables from East to West / César Merchán-Hamann
  • Early Ashkenazic prayer books and their Christian illuminators / Eva Frojmovic
  • The virgin and the unicorn / Piet van Boxel
  • The Oppenheimer siddur / Suzanne Wijsman
  • Science as a meeting-place of cultures / Sabine Arndt
  • Jews and Christians imagining the temple / Lesley Smith
  • Christian Hebraism in thirteenth-century England / Judith Olszowy-Schlanger
  • Cross-religious learning and teaching / Eva de Visscher.