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Reconsidering Early Modern Jewry: Reflections on the Methodology of Legal History
This article seeks to clarify the methodology of Jewish legal history and illustrate how the historical examination of Jewish law serves as a...
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Sacred Sororities: Devotion and Death in Early Modern Jewish Communities
During the early modern period, pious confraternities and sororities evolved into formal associations with their own bylaws and record books. A trail...
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Language, Settings, and Networks for Early Modern Private Conversations
This chapter introduces the research area by proposing the angle of privacy to analyse the subject of everyday conversations in early modern Europe....
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From Thieves to Martyrs: The Story of Two Jews from Early Modern Moravia
This paper focuses on the story of two Jewish men who were convicted of theft and executed in Prostějov, Moravia, in the spring of 1684. Although the...
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“Unnecessary Conversations”: Talking Sex in the Early Modern Polish Village
This chapter shows us how early modern Polish peasants used to discuss sex. Despite the rules of decorum, conversations about sex were still...
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Situating Women’s Private Practices of Knowledge Production in the Early Modern Context
This chapter introduces the book Women’s Private Practices of Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe by exploring the interplays of gender,...
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Remaking a Kabbalist: Manuscript and Print Cultures in Early Modern Italy
The dissemination of Safedian Kabbalah in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Italy represents a critical turning point in the history of...
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Between Neighbors and Strangers: Representations of the Indigenous People of America and Construction of Jewish Identity in Early Modern Western Europe
In a time when theological and scientific concepts of the New World were molded, European Jews, like their fellow Christians, were exposed to...
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Entangled Discourses of Dissent in Early Modern Spain
For more than a century, scholars of early modern Spanish heterodoxy accepted the Inquisition’s categories of heresy as their own. The various types...
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Cursing in Early Modern Townships
This chapter looks further into the wider dimensions of cursing violations, exploring the disciplinary measures and violent repression employed to...
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Our Small World: Hebrew Children’s Letters and Modern Upbringing in Czarist Russia
The historiography of modern Hebrew culture views early twentieth-century Russia largely through the lens of canonical literature. However, Hebrew...
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Pests, Plagues and Pastoral Husbandry: Representing Ovine Disease in Early Modern England
From an ecocritical perspective, the study of ovineOvine diseaseDisease in early modern England allows us to call into question the ‘naturalNatural’...
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A Theory of Philological Practice in Early Modern India
Premodern Indian philology in the sense of ecdotics and interpretation begins late in the scholarly tradition, at the end of the first millennium CE....
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Vision on Vision: Defining Similarities Among Early Modern Illustrations on Cosmology
In the present work we show how many scientific illustrations of the early modern period can be used to track the evolution of visual knowledge and...
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From Medieval Utopia to Modern Dystopia
The rich vocabulary of medieval Islamic apocalyptic and eschatological compilations is familiar to modern Arab writers, yet influenced by modern...
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Old Prophesies, Multiple Modernities: The Stormy Afterlife of a Medieval Pietist in Early Modern Ashkenaz
What was the role of the medieval pietistic heritage in the re-formation of eighteenth century’s Jewish cultures, consciousness, and identities?...
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Conversos, Moriscos, and the Eucharist in Early Modern Spain: Some Reflections on Jewish Exceptionalism
Sacrilegious attitudes toward the Eucharistic host are one of the most commonplace accusations leveled against Jews in premodern Europe. Usually...
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Moro Literature
This chapter analyses the features of folk Moro literature as oral tradition that built the local Adab, this is to say, the cultural etiquette...
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Formative Modernities in the Early Modern Atlantic and Beyond—Critical Remarks on Old Concepts
Early modern states in Europe and the Americas offer a field of research dealing with questions of the absence, presence, or enforcement of statehood...