Kirsten A Fudeman

Vernacular Voices

Language and Identity in Medieval French Jewish Communities

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Applying analytical strategies from linguistics, literature, and history, Kirsten Fudeman demonstrates that language played a central role in the formation, expression, and maintenance of medieval Jewish identity and that it brought Christians and Jews together even as it set them apart.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 161mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 585g
• ISBN-13: 9780812242508
• ISBN-10: 0812242505
• Artikelnr.: 28521440

Autorenporträt

Kirsten Fudeman teaches medieval French language and literature at the University of Pittsburgh.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Translations and Transcription and Typological Conventions
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: The Medieval French Jewish Community in Its Linguistic
Context
Chapter 1. Language and Identity
Chapter 2. Speech and Silence, Male and Female in Jewish-Christian
Relations: Blois, 1171
Chapter 3. Texts of Two Colors
Chapter 4. Hebrew-French Wedding Songs: Expressions of Identity
Epilogue
Appendices
1. Hebraico-French Glosses and Texts
2. The Medieval Jewish Wedding Song 'Uri liqra'ti yafah, gentis kallah
einoreie
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments