In 1322, a Jewish doctor named Abner entered a synagogue in the Castilian city of Burgos
and began to weep in prayer. Falling asleep, he dreamed of a" great man" who urged him to …

This essay questions the geographical categories used to underpin current theoretical and
methodological approaches to “world literature,” which end up making nine-tenths of the …

Custom was fundamental to medieval legal practice. Whether in a property dispute or a trial
for murder, the aggrieved and accused would go to lay court where cases were resolved …

The distinctiveness of religious language use has been used to challenge assumptions and
advance knowledge of general linguistic and semiotic processes, but rarely has this focus …

This collection takes a new approach to understanding religious plurality in the Iberian
Peninsula and its Mediterranean and northern European contexts. Focusing on polemics …

Taking its cue from the efforts to revive the Ojibwe language in the aftermath of residential
schools' closure in Canada, this lecture draws on Giorgio Agamben's essay" The Dream of …

This thesis is an examination of the cultural and political climate of the medieval Welsh
Marches. The investigation is structured around three case studies: Hereford, c. 1180–c …

Portraying Authorship argues that the medieval Castilian writer Juan Manuel fashioned a
seemingly modern authorial persona from the accumulation and synthesis of medieval …

Like other religious traditions, Islam has accommodated notions of the divine logos. The
actual elaboration of these notions has been heavily dependent on how the translation of …

This is the first critical edition and study of a unique and important Muslim polemic against
Christians and Jews. The Book of Disputation was written in Arabic by a Mudejar (subject …