Introduction

—Elisheva Baumgarten, Ruth Mazo Karras, and Katelyn Mesler

PART I. INTELLECTUAL COMMUNITIES AND INTERACTIONS IN THE LONG THIRTEENTH CENTURY

Chapter 1. Rabbinic Conceptions of Marriage and Matchmaking in Christian Europe

—Ephraim Kanarfogel

Chapter 2. Nahmanides' Four Senses of Scriptural Signification: Jewish and Christian Contexts

—Mordechai Z. Cohen

Chapter 3. Bible and Politics: A Correspondence Between Rabbenu Tam and the Authorities of Champagne

—Rami Reiner

Chapter 4. Rabbis, Readers, and the Paris Book Trade: Understanding French Halakhic Literature in the Thirteenth Century

—Judah Galinsky

PART II. SECULAR AND RELIGIOUS AUTHORITIES

Chapter 5. The Madrasa and the Non-Muslims of Thirteenth-Century Egypt: A Reassessment

—Luke Yarbrough

Chapter 6. Jews in and out of Latin Notarial Culture: Analyzing Hebrew Notations on Latin Contracts in Thirteenth-Century Perpignan and Barcelona

—Rebecca Winer

Chapter 7. From Christian Devotion to Jewish Sorcery: The Curious History of Wax Figurines in Medieval Europe

—Kati Ihnat and Katelyn Mesler

Chapter 8. Nicolas Donin, the Talmud Trial of 1240, and the Struggles Between Church and State in Medieval Europe

—Piero Capelli

PART III. TRANSLATIONS AND TRANSMISSIONS OF TEXTS AND KNOWLEDGE

Chapter 9. Cultural Identity in Transmission: Language, Science, and the Medical Profession in Thirteenth-Century Italy

—Yossef Schwartz

Chapter 10. Matter, Meaning, and Maimonides: The Material Text as an Early Modern Map of Thirteenth-Century Debates on Translation

—S. J. Pearce

Chapter 11. Pollution and Purity in Near Eastern Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Crusading Rhetoric

—Uri Shachar

Chapter 12. Adoption and Adaptation: Judah ha-Levi's ¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿ in Its Ashkenazic Environment

—Elisabeth Hollender

Notes

List of Contributors

Index

Acknowledgments