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9780520221628

A Mediterranean Society

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  • ISBN13:

    9780520221628

  • ISBN10:

    0520221621

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-09-01
  • Publisher: Univ of California Pr

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Summary

Goitein's masterful study of the Mediterranean Arabic-speaking Jewish communities of the high Middle Ages (tenth through thirteenth centuries) as reflected in the documents preserved in the famous Cairo Geniza.

Author Biography

S.D. Goitein (1900-1985), scholar, administrator, professor, and author worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton until his death

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
Preface xix
Author's Note xxiii
Abbreviations xxv
Map of Medieval Egypt
xxxii
THE INDIVIDUAL: Portrait of a Mediterranean Personality of the High Middle Ages 1(495)
Note on the Sources
1(4)
A Social Being
5(182)
Gatherings
5(40)
Challenges
45(83)
Death
128(59)
Awareness of Personality
187(136)
The Ideal Person
187(27)
``Your Noble Self.'' Considerateness
214(40)
Rank and renown
254(18)
Friendship and enmity
272(35)
Sex
307(16)
The True Believer
323(92)
Trust in the Merciful
323(9)
Close to God
332(15)
Member of God's community
347(11)
Schism and counterreformation
358(33)
Messianic expectations and the World to Come
391(24)
The Prestige of Scholarship
415(81)
A Survey
415(11)
Seven Portraits
426(70)
Epilogue 496(7)
Notes 503(142)
Index 645

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