CromohsPub Date : 2023-07-17DOI: 10.36253/cromohs-14221
Yaacov Deutsch
{"title":"An Unknown German Translation of Toledot Yeshu by Franz Ferdinand Engelsberger, a Seventeenth Century Christian Convert from Judaism","authors":"Yaacov Deutsch","doi":"10.36253/cromohs-14221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/cromohs-14221","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I focus on a hitherto unknown version of the polemical text Toledot Yeshu published in 1640 by a convert from Judaism named Franz Ferdinand Engelsberger. Following a short biography of Engelsberger, I describe the text and focus on a number of its unique features, that do not appear in other versions of the narrative. In addition, I demonstrate that the text includes certain narrative elements that were known thus far only from the later Huldricus’ version of the story from 1705. These elements indicate that the boundaries between the three main families of the texts identified by Di segni are not as strict as previously thought and that there was much fluidity between the different versions. ","PeriodicalId":38885,"journal":{"name":"Cromohs","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85041940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CromohsPub Date : 2023-07-17DOI: 10.36253/cromohs-14432
Edoardo Tortarolo
{"title":"Unifying Enlightenment","authors":"Edoardo Tortarolo","doi":"10.36253/cromohs-14432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/cromohs-14432","url":null,"abstract":"Review of Jesús Astigarraga, A Unifying Enlightenment. Institutions of Political Economy in Eighteenth-Century Spain (1700–1808), Leiden: Brill, 2021, reviewed by Edoardo Tortarolo","PeriodicalId":38885,"journal":{"name":"Cromohs","volume":"96 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78039445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CromohsPub Date : 2023-07-17DOI: 10.36253/cromohs-13981
Lorenzo Ravano
{"title":"missionari dell'ordine","authors":"Lorenzo Ravano","doi":"10.36253/cromohs-13981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/cromohs-13981","url":null,"abstract":"Review of Matilde Cazzola, I missionari dell’ordine: Pensiero e amministrazione nell’Impero britannico (secoli XVIII-XIX), Bologna: Il Mulino, 2021, reviewed by Lorenzo Ravano","PeriodicalId":38885,"journal":{"name":"Cromohs","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74234449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CromohsPub Date : 2023-07-17DOI: 10.36253/cromohs-14465
K. Barclay
{"title":"Democratic Passions. The Politics of Feeling in British Popular Radicalism, 1809–48","authors":"K. Barclay","doi":"10.36253/cromohs-14465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/cromohs-14465","url":null,"abstract":"Review of Matthew Roberts, Democratic Passions. The Politics of Feeling in British Popular Radicalism, 1809–48, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022, reviewed by Katie Barclay","PeriodicalId":38885,"journal":{"name":"Cromohs","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85129758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CromohsPub Date : 2023-07-17DOI: 10.36253/cromohs-14216
Luc Wodzicki
{"title":"Dawn of Everything","authors":"Luc Wodzicki","doi":"10.36253/cromohs-14216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/cromohs-14216","url":null,"abstract":"Review of David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything. A New History of Humanity, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021, reviewed by Luc Wodzicki","PeriodicalId":38885,"journal":{"name":"Cromohs","volume":"86 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86215343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CromohsPub Date : 2023-01-31DOI: 10.36253/cromohs-13871
Ramzi Rouighi
{"title":"Seeing Islam as a Historian Sees It","authors":"Ramzi Rouighi","doi":"10.36253/cromohs-13871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/cromohs-13871","url":null,"abstract":"When historians employ the term “Islam” to interpret and explain the medieval past they tend to conceive of it as a religion, a civilization, or a world, reflecting not only their own assumptions, priorities, and concerns, but also those of the medieval authors on whose writings they rely. Rather than improving our understanding of the past, however, prevailing ways of handling the category Islam tend to weaken our grasp of historical processes. They are problematic and require critical attention to disentangle webs of meanings across a vast number of pertinent texts and contexts, medieval and modern. ","PeriodicalId":38885,"journal":{"name":"Cromohs","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73072312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CromohsPub Date : 2023-01-31DOI: 10.36253/cromohs-13821
E. Michels
{"title":"Marian Devotion and the Jewish Gospel (Toledot Yeshu) in Eighteenth Century Amsterdam","authors":"E. Michels","doi":"10.36253/cromohs-13821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/cromohs-13821","url":null,"abstract":"Polemical narratives on the life of Jesus of Nazareth were common among Jews since the Middle Ages. In the Enlightenment context, especially in the Netherlands, these narratives developed into an eminently popular text genre, with close ties to the performative arts. The authors of the Yiddish manuscripts discussed here thus inserted new narrative elements into the traditional story. In their retelling of he familiar story, they creatively included actualizing references to the daily experiences of their audience. Among these original elements, we find a retelling of the assumption of Mary. Whereas this unexpected narrative element seems to reflect a medieval context, when popular stories about the Virgin Mary widely circulated in the Catholic Netherlands, it nevertheless served as an effective tool also in a Protestant context. to negotiate the boundaries between the Jewish and Christian communities, and define the conditions of their peaceful coexistence.","PeriodicalId":38885,"journal":{"name":"Cromohs","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87244432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CromohsPub Date : 2023-01-31DOI: 10.36253/cromohs-14191
C. Bori
{"title":"An Interview with Konrad Hirschler","authors":"C. Bori","doi":"10.36253/cromohs-14191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/cromohs-14191","url":null,"abstract":"Konrad Hirschler is a historian of manuscript cultures with a focus on Arabic North Africa and West Asia in the pre-print era. He combines social and cultural history to study what meanings different social strata and milieux ascribed to written artefacts and for what purposes they employed such artefacts. His work has focused in particular on reconstructing vanished libraries. This has led to a strong interest in the question of artefacts’ trajectories and provenances. In recent years, he has become increasingly interested in the materiality of the written word. As a result, he strives to develop cross-disciplinary initiatives among various disciplines in the humanities as well as between humanities and natural sciences.","PeriodicalId":38885,"journal":{"name":"Cromohs","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74591562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CromohsPub Date : 2023-01-31DOI: 10.36253/cromohs-13822
A. Cattaneo
{"title":"Entangled Histories, Catholic Missions and Languages","authors":"A. Cattaneo","doi":"10.36253/cromohs-13822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/cromohs-13822","url":null,"abstract":"This essay focuses on the heterogeneous missionary contexts connected to the Portuguese Empire, in the hemisphere assigned to Portugal by the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) and Zaragoza (1529), ranging from Brasil, Sub-Saharan Africa, to India, Vietnam, China and Japan. In these plural missionary contexts, between ca. 1540 to 1650, Portuguese was used, mostly by the Jesuits and their more numerous local native mediators, as translational language for several idioms unknown in Europe. These early modern linguistic and cultural translations of living languages based on Portuguese as translational language, have largely been overlooked outside of the field of missionary linguistics. This essay highlights instead their strong documentary potential, meaning and implications, beyond linguistics, with respect to current debates on early modern global history and its periodization.","PeriodicalId":38885,"journal":{"name":"Cromohs","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89555012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CromohsPub Date : 2023-01-31DOI: 10.36253/cromohs-12952
Daniel Barbu
{"title":"Emotions and the Hidden Transcript","authors":"Daniel Barbu","doi":"10.36253/cromohs-12952","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/cromohs-12952","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses ont he reception, circulation and transmission of Jewish narratives on Jesus in early modern Italy. The Italian Peninsula witnessed an important revival of Jewish culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth century, due, among other things, to the influx of Jewish refugees from Spain and Portugal. Italy stood at the junction of the Ashkenazi and Sephardi worlds, acquiring a central role in the dissemination, transmission, and renewed development of polemical traditions, including the Jewish stories on Jesus and the origins of Christianiy known as Toledot Yeshu. I argue that Toledot Yeshu in fact constituted the background of many discussions between Christian and Jews in that context. Almost a third of all extant Toledot Yeshu manuscripts in fact originate from Italy, which thus provides a key site for understanding the place and function of this tradition at a particular time and place. ","PeriodicalId":38885,"journal":{"name":"Cromohs","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76285726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}