Dominion Built of Praise: Panegyric and Legitimacy Among Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean

ISBN-13: 9780812250411 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 400 str.

Jonathan P. Decter

Opis

In Dominion Built of Praise, Jonathan Decter looks at the phenomenon of panegyric in Mediterranean Jewish culture from several overlapping perspectives-social, historical, ethical, poetic, political, and theological-and finds that they depict how representations of Jewish political leadership varied across space and evolved over time.