Don Isaac Abravanel: Nobility and the Church in Burgundy, 980-1198

by Benzion Netanyahu

Book Overview

Don Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508) was a major historical figure during the waning of the Middle Ages. Statesman, diplomat, courtier, and financier, he was, at the same time, a scholar of encyclopedic learning, a philosopher, an exegete, a prolific author, a mystic, and an apocalyptist. In Abravanel, B. Netanyahu suggests, two long lines of tradition met and concluded: that of medieval Jewish statesmen and that of medieval Jewish philosophers. In...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801484855
• ISBN13: 9780801484858
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher