Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz : Men, Women, and Everyday Religious Observance /
Elisheva Baumgarten offers a fresh assessment of Jewish daily practices in medieval Ashkenaz. The first study to address the practices of men and women together, Baumgarten explores how Jews who were not learned alongside those who were expressed their convictions and reinforced their identities ass...
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Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2014]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
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- Jewish fasting and atonement in a Christian context
- Communal charity: evidence from Medieval Nürnberg
- Positive time-bound commandments: class, gender, and transformation
- Conspicuous in the city: Medieval Jews in urban centers
- Feigning piety: tracing two tales of pious pretenders
- Practicing piety: social and comparative perspectives.