New Issue of Medieval Encounters

Volume 30, Issue 5-6 (Oct 2024): Special Issue: Why Write Poetry? Transcultural Perspectives from the Later Medieval Period, edited by Krystina Kubina and Nikos Zagklas

CONTENTS:

[Open Access] Introduction: Why Write Poetry? Transcultural Perspectives from the Later Medieval Period — Krystina Kubina and Nikos Zagklas

“The Sweetness of the Persian Tongue”: the Limits of Poetry in Medieval and Early Modern Georgia — Nikoloz Aleksidze

Poetic Alchemy: the Rise of Romance from a Persian Perspective: Dedicated to Julie Scott Meisami, 1937–2021 — Cameron Cross

[Open Access] Greek Poetry in a Multicultural Society: Sicily and Salento in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries — Krystina Kubina and Nikos Zagklas

Hebrew Panegyric of the Late Middle Ages: Shemaryah, Son of Elijah, and His Praise Poems — Saskia Dönitz

Book Reviews, e.g. on “England’s Jews: Finance, Violence, and the Crown in the Thirteenth Century”, written by John Tolan


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About Maria Stürzebecher

I am the curator of the Museum Old Synagogue in Erfurt and scientific coordinator for the UNESCO World Heritage application Jewish-Medieval Heritage in Erfurt. Since 2012, I am editing the series "Erfurter Schriften zur Jüdischen Geschichte"; in 2020, the 6th volume "Ritual Objects in Ritual Contexts." was published. I studied History of Arts, Archaeology, Sociology and History and wrote my PhD thesis about the medieval Erfurt Treasure, which was published in 2009 entitled „Der Schatzfund aus der Erfurter Michaelisstrasse – Mittelalterliche Goldschmiedearbeiten als Zeugnisse jüdischen Lebens in Erfurt“.