TY - JOUR
T1 - Dialogue and the City, circa 1400
T2 - Pero Ferruz and the Rabbis of Alcalá
AU - Gutwirth, Eleazar
PY - 2007/3
Y1 - 2007/3
N2 - Within the problematics of history and representation, the court comes to the fore in various types of late medieval writings: chronicles, ambassadorial reports, decrees as well as literature in various genres. Yet how to read these texts is a question that affects the reconstruction of Jewish history of the period. Here an attempt is made to develop a way of reading such texts though examining an apparently minor poem by Pero Ferruz in the Cancionero de Baena. This poem, it is argued, reveals the items of interest in courtly dialogue: synagogues, Jewish privileges, legal status, theological discrepancies, but also consensus. The coherence of the text is constructed by appeal to the subject of the city and its rise in the late Middle Ages.
AB - Within the problematics of history and representation, the court comes to the fore in various types of late medieval writings: chronicles, ambassadorial reports, decrees as well as literature in various genres. Yet how to read these texts is a question that affects the reconstruction of Jewish history of the period. Here an attempt is made to develop a way of reading such texts though examining an apparently minor poem by Pero Ferruz in the Cancionero de Baena. This poem, it is argued, reveals the items of interest in courtly dialogue: synagogues, Jewish privileges, legal status, theological discrepancies, but also consensus. The coherence of the text is constructed by appeal to the subject of the city and its rise in the late Middle Ages.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33947701576&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10835-006-9026-z
DO - 10.1007/s10835-006-9026-z
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AN - SCOPUS:33947701576
SN - 0334-701X
VL - 21
SP - 43
EP - 67
JO - Jewish History
JF - Jewish History
IS - 1
ER -