Abstract
In 1730, the Inquisition of Lisbon arrested José Francisco Pereira, a man raised in West Africa and enslaved in Brazil then Portugal, who had learned along his transatlantic journeys the art ...of making amulets known in the eighteenth century Portuguese-speaking world as bolsas de mandinga. Mixing European esoteric material into objects of Afro-Atlantic agency, bolsa-makers such as José Francisco created objects of trustworthy might that brought empowerment and security of body and mind to a diverse clientele. The bolsas, as well as similar empowered objects created in Atlantic Africa reveal the deep and mutually transformative spiritual and material connections that the slave trade engendered between Europeans and Africans in the early modern period. Common concerns produced similar answers, not least newly defined or redefined notions of witchcraft and fetish and, more broadly, conceptions about the nature of power and its multivalent entanglements with the material world.
This book addresses a central question in the study of Jewish mysticism in the medieval and early modern periods: why are there no known female mystics in medieval Judaism, unlike contemporaneous ...movements in Christianity and Islam? Sharon Faye Koren demonstrates that the male rejection of female mystical aspirations is based in deeply rooted attitudes toward corporeality and ritual purity. In particular, medieval Jewish male mystics increasingly emphasized that the changing states of the female body between ritual purity and impurity disqualified women from the quest for mystical connection with God. Offering a provocative look at premodern rabbinical views of the female body and their ramifications for women's spiritual development, Koren compares Jewish views with medieval Christian and Muslim views of both female menstruation and the possibility of female mystical experience.
On 9 February 2019, Walther Ludwig celebrated his ninetieth birthday. Part I contains ten essays based in the sixteenth century: "César Grolier, Marco Girolamo Vida und Caspar Barth über den Sacco di ...Roma," "Deutsche Studenten in Bourges und das Stammbuch des Josias Marcus von 1557/58 innerhalb der frühen Stammbuchentwicklung," "Die abgebrochene Orientreise von Jacques Bongars im Licht neuer Forschungen," "Lateinische Gedichte im Konfessionsstreit zwischen dem Tübinger Lutheraner Lucas Osiander und den Ingolstädter Franziskanern Johannes Nas und Johannes Dominicus Heß," "Synodus Oecumenica Theologorum Protestantium: die große dramatische antiprotestantische Satire des humanistischen Franziskaners Johannes Dominicus Hessus (1593)," "Die Libri sex de haereticis von Conradus Brunus: Nährboden für die Synodus Oecumenica Theologorum Protestantium des Franziskaners Hessus," "Der Humanist Laurentius Rhodomanus als griechischer Dichter Laurentios Rodoman und seine Autobiographie von 1582," "Scitis, quanto semper amore Graecorum rerum flagrem-Motive für den Höhepunkt des humanistischen griechischen Dichtens um 1600," "Das protestantische Bild der Universalgeschichte im 16./17. All that one can do, in the face of decades of scholarship like this, is to await the ninety-fifth birthday volume.
This collection of original materials provides a sweeping view of medieval and early modern Jewish ritual and religious practice. Including such diverse texts as ritual manuals, legal codes, mystical ...books, autobiographical writings, folk literature, and liturgical poetry, it testifies to the enormous variety of practices that characterized Judaism in the twelve hundred years between 600 and 1800 C.E. Its focus on religious practice and experience--how Judaism was actually lived by people from day to day--makes this anthology unique among the few sourcebooks available. The volume encompasses the broad scope and complex texture of Jewish religious practice, taking into account many aspects of Jewish culture that have hitherto been relatively neglected: the religious life of ordinary people, the role and status of women, art and aesthetics, and marginalized as well as remote Jewish communities. It introduces such remarkable personalities as Moses Maimonides, Leon Modena, and Gluckel of Hameln, and presents extraordinary texts on festival practice, Torah study, mystical communities, meditation, exorcism, the practice of charity, and folk rites marking birth and death. Representing state-of-the-art scholarship by distinguished academics from around the world, the volume includes many materials never before translated into English. Each text is preceded by an accessible introduction, making this book suitable for college and university students as well as a general audience. Whether read as a deliberate course of study or dipped into selectively for a glimpse into fascinating Jewish lives and places, Judaism in Practice holds rich rewards for any reader.
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Painting in Stone: Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment by Fabio Barry, New Haven and Yale University Press, 2020, 438pp., 215 col. and 117 b. & w. illus., ...hardback, SO In Sparkling Company: Reflections on Glass in the 18th-Century British World, edited by Christopher L. Maxwell, Corning, NY: Corning Museum of Glass, 304pp. 191 col. illus., $65
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