Description: Further DetailsTitle: Dominion Built of PraiseCondition: NewSubtitle: Panegyric and Legitimacy Among Jews in the Medieval MediterraneanISBN-10: 0812250419EAN: 9780812250411ISBN: 9780812250411Publisher: University of Pennsylvania PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 10/12/2018Description: 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 preludes to these poems is often studied, the substance of what follows is generally neglected, as it is perceived to be repetitive, obsequious, and less aesthetically interesting than other types of poetry from the period. In Dominion Built of Praise, Jonathan Decter demurs. As is the case with visual portraits, panegyrics operate according to a code of cultural norms that tell us at least as much about the society that produced them as the individuals they portray. Looking at the phenomenon of panegyric in Mediterranean Jewish culture from several overlapping perspectives—social, historical, ethical, poetic, political, and theological—he finds that they offer representations of Jewish political leadership as it varied across geographic area and evolved over time.Decter focuses his analysis primarily on Jewish centers in the Islamic Mediterranean between the tenth and thirteenth centuries and also includes a chapter on Jews in the Christian Mediterranean through the fifteenth century. He examines the hundreds of panegyrics that have survived: some copied repeatedly in luxurious anthologies, others discarded haphazardly in the Cairo Geniza. According to Decter, the poems extolled conventional character traits ascribed to leaders not only diachronically within the Jewish political tradition but also synchronically within Islamic and, to a lesser extent, Christian civilization and political culture. Dominion Built of Praise reveals more than a superficial and functional parallel between Muslim and Jewish forms of statecraft and demonstrates how ideas of Islamic political legitimacy profoundly shaped the ways in which Jews conceptualized and portrayed their own leadership.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Jonathan DecterGenre: Society & CultureBook Series: Jewish Culture and ContextsTopic: Social Sciences, Literary CriticismRelease Year: 2018 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Dominion Built of Praise
Title: Dominion Built of Praise
Subtitle: Panegyric and Legitimacy Among Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean
ISBN-10: 0812250419
EAN: 9780812250411
ISBN: 9780812250411
Release Date: 10/12/2018
Release Year: 2018
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 400 Pages
Publication Name: Dominion Built of Praise : Panegyric and Legitimacy Among Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean
Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Item Height: 1.3 in
Subject: Leadership, Medieval, Judaism / General, Poetry, Europe / General, Jewish Studies
Publication Year: 2018
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 28.3 Oz
Item Length: 9.3 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Religion, Social Science, History
Author: Jonathan Decter
Series: Jewish Culture and Contexts Ser.
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
