Taking the Jewish community as a focal point, this book thoroughly explores the various 'borders' - geographical divides, religious affiliations, gender boundaries, genre divisions - that ruled the lives and intellectual production of late medieval Jews.

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MARIA ESPERENZA ALFONSO **** Ramon y Cajal Research Fellow in the Department of Hebrew and Aramaic Studies at Universidad Complutense, Spain.

CARMEN CABALLERO-NAVAS Research Fellow and Lecturer in the Department of Semitic Studies, Area Hebrew School of Arts, University of Granada, Spain.

Inhalt
Introduction; C.Caballero-Navas & E.Alfonso PART I: ON BORDERS AND BOUNDARIES Bloodshed and Borders: Violence and Acculturation in Late Medieval Jewish Society; M.Meyerson The Identity of Zequiel: Conversos , Historiography, and Familiar Spirits; E.Gutwirth PART II: CONVERSO IDENTITY Identities in Flux: Iberian Conversos at Home and Abroad; R.Levine Melammed Polemical Strategy and the Rhetoric of Authority in Abner of Burgos/Alfonso of Valladolid; R.Szpiech PART III: FEMALE IDENTITY Jewish Women in Ashkenaz: Renegotiating Jewish Gender Roles in Northern Europe; J.R.Baskin Queen for a Day: The Exclusion of Jewish Women From Public Life in the Middle Ages; A.Blasco Martínez 'Only that which I Have Lost is Now Mine Forever': The Memory of Names and the History of Jewish and Converso Women in Medieval Girona; S.Planas Marcé PART IV: IS THERE A SENSE OF OTHERNESS IN THE SCIENCES? Arav and Edom as Cultural Resources of Medieval Judaism: Contrasting Attitudes Toward Arabic and Latin Learning in the Midi and in Italy; G.Freudenthal Science and Jewish Identity in the Works of Abraham Zacut (1452 1515); M.Gómez Aranda The Incorporation of Foreign Medical Literature into the Medieval Jewish Corpus; L.Ferre PART V: REPRESENTATION OF OTHERNESS AND CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY IN LITERATURE The Seri ha-yagon [Balm for Assuaging Grief] by Ibn Falaquera: A Case of Literary Crossbreeding; A.Salvatierra Ossorio Defining Borders: Early Fifteenth-Century Jews from the Crown of Aragon in Search of Their Identity; Á.Sáenz-Badillos The Representation of Conversos in Bonafed's Diwan; A.Prats PART VI: REPRESENTATION OF OTHERNESS AND CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY IN THE VISUAL ARTS Jewish Mudejarismo and the Invention of Tradition; E.Frojmovic The Jew's Face: Vision, Knowledge, and Identity in Medieval Anti-Jewish Caricature; S.Lipton