LIBROS DEL AUTOR: mark r cohen

5 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: mark r cohen

  • Jewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt
    Mark R. Cohen / Mark RCohen
    Under three successive Islamic dynasties--the Fatimids, the Ayyubids, and the Mamluks--the Egyptian Office of the Head of the Jews (also known as the Nagid) became the most powerful representative of medieval Jewish autonomy in the Islamic world. To determine the origins of this institution, Mark Cohen concentrates on the complex web of internal and external circumstances durin...
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    233,76 €

  • Jewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt
    Mark R. Cohen / Mark RCohen
    Under three successive Islamic dynasties--the Fatimids, the Ayyubids, and the Mamluks--the Egyptian Office of the Head of the Jews (also known as the Nagid) became the most powerful representative of medieval Jewish autonomy in the Islamic world. To determine the origins of this institution, Mark Cohen concentrates on the complex web of internal and external circumstances durin...
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    92,13 €

  • Under Crescent and Cross
    Mark R. Cohen
    Did Muslims and Jews in the Middle Ages cohabit in a peaceful 'interfaith utopia'? Or were Jews under Muslim rule persecuted, much as they were in Christian lands? Rejecting both polemically charged ideas as myths, Mark Cohen offers a systematic comparison of Jewish life in medieval Islam and Christendom--and the first in-depth explanation of why medieval Islamic-Jewish relatio...
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    49,89 €

  • The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages
    Mark R. Cohen / Mark RCohen
    They are voices that have been silent for centuries: those of captives and refugees, widows and orphans, the blind and infirm, and the underclass of the 'working poor.' Now, for the first time, the voices of the poor in the Middle Ages come to life in this moving book by historian Mark Cohen. A companion to Cohen’s other volume, Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Me...
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    68,22 €

  • Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt
    Mark R. Cohen / Mark RCohen
    What was it like to be poor in the Middle Ages? In the past, the answer to this question came only from institutions and individuals who gave relief to the less fortunate. This book, by one of the top scholars in the field, is the first comprehensive book to study poverty in a premodern Jewish community--from the viewpoint of both the poor and those who provided for them. Mark ...
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    109,56 €