Jewish life in Renaissance Italy /

With this heady exploration of time and space, rumors and silence, colors, tastes, and ideas, Robert Bonfil recreates the richness of Jewish life in Renaissance Italy. He also forces us to rethink conventional interpretations of the period, which feature.

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Autore principale: Bonfil, Robert
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
italiano
Pubblicazione: Berkeley : University of California Press ©1994.
Accesso online:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnjq1
Sommario:
  • pt. 1. Structures of settlement and the economy
  • The laws of topodemographic distribution
  • Trades and professions
  • pt. 2. Structures of culture and society
  • The problem of sociocultural identity: some preliminary observations
  • Education and the rabbinical ideal
  • Jewish culture hebraists, and the role of the Kabbalah
  • Community institutions
  • pt. 3. Structures of mentality
  • Time and space
  • Sounds and silence
  • Colors, tastes, and odors
  • The days of life
  • Death as the mirror of life.