Dominion built of praise: panegyric and legitimacy among Jews in the medieval Mediterranean

A constant feature of Jewish culture in the medieval Mediterranean was the dedication of panegyric texts in Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, and other languages to men of several ranks: scholars, communal leaders, courtiers, merchants, patrons, and poets. Although the imagery of nature and eroticism in the pre...

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Main Author: Decter, Jonathan P. 1971- (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press [2018]
In:Year: 2018
Reviews:[Rezension von: Jonathan Decter, Dominion built of praise. Panegyric and legitimacy among Jews in the medieval mediterranean] (2020) (Rand, Michael, 1972 -)
Edition:1st edition
Series/Journal:Jewish Culture and Contexts
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Mediterranean area / Jewish literature / Panegyric / Eulogy / History 500-1500
Further subjects:B Hebrew poetry, Medieval (Mediterranean Region) History and criticism
B Literature
B Laudatory poetry History and criticism
B Religion
B Laudatory poetry
B Jews (Mediterranean Region) Social life and customs History To 1500
B SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies
B Medieval and Renaissance Studies
B Jews
B Cultural Studies
B Praise in literature
B Hebrew poetry, Medieval
B Jewish Studies
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505 8 0 |a Frontmatter -- -- Contents -- -- Introduction -- -- Chapter 1. Performance Matters: Between Public Acclamation and Epistolary Exchange -- -- Chapter 2. Poetic Gifts: Maussian Exchange and the Working of Medieval Jewish Culture -- -- Chapter 3. “Humble Like the Humble One”: The Language of Jewish Political Legitimacy -- -- Chapter 4. “Sefarad Boasts over Shinar”: Mediterranean Regionalism in Jewish Panegyric -- -- Chapter 5. “A Word Aptly Spoken”: The Ethics of Praise -- -- Chapter 6. “A Cedar Whose Stature in the Garden of Wisdom . . .”: Hyperbole, the Imaginary, and the Art of Magnification -- -- Chapter 7. In Praise of God, in Praise of Man: Issues in Political Theology -- -- Chapter 8. “May His Book Be Burnt Even Though It Contains Your Praise!”: Jewish Panegyric in the Christian Mediterranean -- -- Chapter 9. The Other “Great Eagle”: Interreligious Panegyrics and the Limits of Interpretation -- -- Afterword -- -- Notes -- -- Bibliography -- -- General Index -- -- Index of Geniza Manuscripts -- -- Acknowledgments 
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