Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Intellectual Comm unities and Interactions i n t he Long Thirteenth Century
5. Chapter 1. Rabbinic Conceptions of Marriage and Matchmaking in Christian Europe 23
6. Chapter 2. Nahmanides’ Four Senses of Scriptural Signification: Jewish and Christian Contexts 38
7. Chapter 3. Bible and Politics: A Correspondence Between Rabbenu Tam and the Authorities of Champagne 59
8. Chapter 4. Rabbis, Readers, and the Paris Book Trade: Understanding French Halakhic Literature in the Thirteenth Century 73
9. Part II. Secular and Religious Authorities
10. Chapter 5. The Madrasa and the Non-Muslims of Thirteenth-Century Egypt: A Reassessment 93
11. Chapter 6. Jews in and out of Latin Notarial Culture: Analyzing Hebrew Notations on Latin Contracts in Thirteenth-Century Perpignan and Barcelona 113
12. Chapter 7. From Christian Devotion to Jewish Sorcery: The Curious History of Wax Figurines in Medieval Europe 134
13. Chapter 8. Nicolas Donin, the Talmud Trial of 1240, and the Struggles Between Church and State in Medieval Europe 159
14. Part III. Translations and Transmissions of Texts and Knowledge
15. Chapter 9. Cultural Identity in Transmission: Language, Science, and the Medical Profession in Thirteenth-Century Italy 181
16. Chapter 10. Matter, Meaning, and Maimonides: The Material Text as an Early Modern Map of Thirteenth-Century Debates on Translation 204
17. Chapter 11. Pollution and Purity in Near Eastern Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Crusading Rhetoric 229
18. Chapter 12. Adoption and Adaptation: Judah ha-Levi’s ציון הלא תשאלי לשלום אסיריך in Its Ashkenazic Environment 248
19. Notes 263
20. List of Contributors 339
21. Index 343
22. Acknowledgments 355