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The Beginnings of Ladino Literature : Moses Almosnino and His Readers /

"Moses Almosnino (1518-1580), arguably the most famous Ottoman Sephardi writer and the only one who was known in Europe to both Jews and Christians, became renowned for his vernacular books that were admired by Ladino readers across many generations. While Almosnino's works were written in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Borovai︠a︡, O. V. (Olʹga Volʹfovna) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: Jewish vernacular culture in fifteenth-century Iberia
  • Ladino in the sixteenth century: the emergence of a new vernacular literature
  • Almosnino's epistles: a new genre for a new audience
  • Almosnino's chronicles: the Ottoman Empire through the eyes of court Jews
  • The first Ladino travelogue: Almosnino's treatise on the extremes of Constantinople
  • Rabbis and merchants: new readers, new educational projects
  • Epilogue: Moses Almosnino, a renaissance man?
  • Appendix: The extremes of Constantinople.