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SUMMARY:Travelling texts: notes on early modern geography and Hebraism - Z
 ur Shalev (University of Haifa)
DTSTART:20160121T153000Z
DTEND:20160121T170000Z
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CONTACT:Marta Halina
DESCRIPTION:In recent decades the study of early modern geography has take
 n a fruitful humanist turn. We now understand better the mechanisms of tex
 tual transmission\, translation\, and appropriation that shaped much of th
 e geographical knowledge at the time. Scholars\, for understandable reason
 s\, concentrated so far on the classical tradition and its central role in
  this process. My work highlights another group of sources that has so far
  received little or no notice in this context: medieval Hebrew travel text
 s and related materials\, which became more accessible to Christian reader
 s once they appeared in print during the sixteenth century. In my talk I w
 ill look at a few notable early modern Christian Hebraists (such as Benito
  Arias Montano\, Gilbert Génébrard\, Sebastian Münster\, J.H. Hottinger
 ) and examine these scholars' various engagements with these seemingly out
 dated Hebrew travel tales. What\, I ask\, was the significance of these te
 xts for members of the republic of letters during an age of new geographic
 al and religious discoveries?
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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