Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2016
Titel der Quelle:
Speculum; a Journal of Medieval Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
91,1 (2016) 115-148
Schlagwort(e):
Meshullam ben Menahem,
;
Bertinoro, Obadiah,
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Jews History 15th century
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Travelers' writings History and criticism
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Jewish travelers History 15th century
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Nature Religious aspects
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Judaism
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Jewish illumination of books and manuscripts
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Animals in art
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Crocodiles in literature
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Eretz Israel Early works to 1800 Description and travel
Kurzfassung:
The travel experience of the 15th century, as exemplified by the crocodile accounts of Meshulam ben Menahem and Ovadiah da Bertinoro [they traveled together in 1487 to Egypt and Eretz Israel], offers a lens through which we shall explore the dynamic interplay of empiricism and scholasticism in the latter 15th century. Using the crocodile as a case study, we shall deconstruct the matrix of empirical and scholastic data available to these two travelers, trace motifs to their ancient and medieval sources, and watch them surface, disappear, and often resurface across time and space, through the Middle Ages to the late fifteenth century.
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