The Jews in Spain: Their Social, Political, and Cultural Life During the Middle Ages. By Abraham A. Neuman, President, the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning. Volume I, A Political-Economic Study; Volume II, A Social-Cultural Study. [The Morris Loeb Series.] (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America. 1942. Pp. xxxi, 286; xi, 399. $2.50 per volume.)

1943 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Study ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Economic Study ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Jewish Publication Society ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Middle Ages

The Enlightenment’s Paradigm Shift and the Three Impostors

2021 ◽  
pp. 43-62
Author(s):  
Guy G. Stroumsa
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Family Relationship ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Different Shapes ◽  
Close Family ◽  
The Middle Ages

The preceding chapter dealt with the legend of the three rings, which highlighted the close family relationship between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. This relationship, which had been an obvious one up through the Middle Ages, began to be seen as less evident in the eighteenth century. The Enlightenment (or perhaps, rather, the Enlightenments) took many different shapes across Europe. The present chapter is devoted to a paradigm shift, one which reflects a new historicization of European cultural life, at least in the approach to religious phenomena. In France, on which this chapter focuses, the historical transformation started earlier than elsewhere, at the very beginning of the eighteenth century.

scholarly journals Italy and Provence: Cultural Connections in the Middle Ages

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-46
Author(s):  
Elena Grinina ◽  
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Galina Romanova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Cultural Connections ◽  
The Middle Ages

The Provencal language and lyrics of troubadours had the highest authority in the Middle Ages, having influenced the development of poetic art, in particular, and the development of philological thought, in general, in adjacent territories. Undoubtedly, there were the closest ties of medieval Provence with Catalonia. However, Italy was also involved in the orbit of the cultural life of Provence. The purpose of the article is to show how Italy and Provence were connected in the 13th century and to what extent Italy contributed to the development and preservation of the grammar of the Provencal literary language of that era.

A Cultural History of Memory in the Middle Ages

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Social Fields ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Phenomenon ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Middle Ages

This volume covers the vast field of memory, commemoration and the art of memory in the Middle Ages. Memory was not only a religious, social and historical phenomenon but also a driving factor in cultural life and in the production of art. It played an important role in medieval intellectual, visual and material culture, touching on almost all spheres of personal and social life. Yet the perception of memory did not remain static. The period covered by this volume, 500-1450, was one of enormous change in the way memory was understood, expressed, and valued. The authors of the essays trace the changes in the understanding of memory in its diverse forms and social fields, analysing everyday life as well as politics, philosophy and theology. As can be demonstrated, functions and perceptions evolved over the medieval millennium and laid the foundations for the modern understanding of individual and social memory.

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