Catalan Maps and Jewish Books: The Intellectual Profile of Elisha Ben Abraham Cresques (1325-1387): 15 (Terrarum Orbis) - Hardcover

Kogman-Appel, Katrin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 2503585485 ISBN 13: 9782503585482

Publisher: Brepols Publishers, 2020

Synopsis

This book presents a small chapter in the intellectual history of the Jews of Majorca. Its key figure is Elisha ben Abraham Bevenisti Cresques (1325-1387) a cartographer in the service of King Peter IV of Aragon and a scribe and illuminator of Hebrew books. Elisha Cresques' career evolves at a point in time when some of the most fascinating threads of methodological interests relevant to intellectual history meet. He emerges as a hub, so to speak, where mapmaking converged with scribal work, miniature painting with scientific knowledge, and the culture of a minority with that of the majority. How he was able to negotiate his patron's expectations and his own cultural identity and frame them within the political, cultural, and religious discourses of his time is the subject of this book.

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About the Author

Katrin Kogman-Appel holds an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in Jewish Studies (215–22), which she took up at the University of Münster. A scholar of medieval Jewish book culture, she is the author of Illuminated Haggadot from Medieval Spain (27), which won the Premio del Rey Prize of the American Historical Association in 29. Her A Mahzor from Worms (212) was a finalist of the National Jewish Book Award.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2503585485
• ISBN 13: 9782503585482
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 358