BOOK REVIEWS, RESPONSES, NECROLOGIES
2022 Heather Bamford, Cultures of the Fragment: Uses of the Iberian Manuscript, 1100–1600 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018). Reviewed in Renaissance Quarterly 75.1 (2022): 341–42.
2020 “Inheriting Al-Andalus.” Review of S.J. Pearce The Andalusi Literary and Intellectual Tradition: The Role of Arabic in Judah Ibn Tibbon’s Ethical Will (Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2017). Reviewed in La Corónica 48.2 (2020): 19–26.
2019 Daniel G. König, Arabic-Islamic Views of the Latin West: Tracing the Emergence of Medieval Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015). Reviewed in Der Islam 96.1 (2019): 238‒242.
2018 Efraim Sicher. The Jew’s Daughter: A Cultural History of a Conversion Narrative (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017). Reviewed in Nashim 33 (5779/2018): 230–34.
2017 Almut Suerbaum, George Southcombe, and Benjamin Thompson, eds. Polemic: Language as Violence in Medieval and Early Modern Discourse (Farnham, Surrey, UK, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015). Reviewed in Speculum 92.3 (2017): 901–903.
2016 Edoardo D’Angelo and Jan Ziolkowski, eds., Auctor et Auctoritas in Latinis Medii Aevi Litteris / Author and Authorship in Medieval Latin Literature: Proceedings of the VIth Congress of the International Medieval Latin Committee (Benevento-Naples, November 9–13, 2010) (Firenze: Sismel-Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2014). Reviewed in The Medieval Review (16.10.02), 2016.
2016 Thomas W. Barton, Contesting Treasure: Jews and Authority in the Crown of Aragon (University Park, P.A.: Pennsylvania State UP, 2015). Reviewed in Speculum 91.4 (2016): 1073‒1074.
2015 Pamela A. Patton, Art of Estrangement: Redefining Jews in Reconquest Spain (University Park, P.A.: Pennsylvania State UP, 2012). Reviewed in Revista Hispánica Moderna 68.1 (2015): 105–07.
2015 Paola Tartakoff, Between Christian and Jew: Conversion and Inquisition in the Crown of Aragon, 1250–1391 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012). Reviewed in The Journal of Religion 95.1 (2015): 134–36.
2015 Vicent Ferrer, Quaestio de Unitate Universalis מאמר נכבד בכולל (Ma’mar nikhbad ba-kolel). Latin Text and Medieval Hebrew Version with Catalan and English Translations. Edited by Alexander Fidora and Mauro Zonta in collaboration with Josep Batalla and Robert D. Hughes. (Santa Coloma de Queralt: Obrador Edèndum, 2010). Reviewed in Medievalia et Humanistica n.s. 40 (2015): 159–62.
2013 Justin K. Stearns. Infectious Ideas: Contagion in Premodern Islamic and Christian Thought in the Western Mediterranean (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011). Reviewed in Speculum 88.2 (2013): 584-87.
2013 Ragnhild Johnsrud Zorgati. Pluralism in the Middle Ages: Hybrid Identities, Conversion, and Mixed Marriages in Medieval Iberia (New York: Routledge, 2012).
Reviewed in The Medieval Review, (12.06.35), 2012.
2012 “The Virtues of Exile: An Appreciation of María Rosa Menocal (1953-2012).” La Corónica 41.1 (2012): 5-23.
2012 “Commentary on Christian de Pee, ‘Cycles of Cathay: Sinology, Philology, and Histories of the Song Dynasty (960 – 1279) in the United States.'” Fragments: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Ancient and Medieval Pasts 2 (2012): 82-8
2011 Paula Fredriksen. Augustine and the Jews. A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism. New York: Doubleday, 2008. Reissued with a new postscript. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010). Reviewed in AJS Review 35.2 (2011): 419–21
2013 Jean-Claude Schmitt. The Conversion of Herman the Jew. Autobiography, History, and Fiction in the Twelfth Century. Trans. Alex J. Novikoff. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010). Reviewed in The Medieval Review (11.02.06), 2011.
2008 Ivy A. Corfis and Ray Harris – Northall, eds. Medieval Iberia: Changing Societies and Cultures in Contact and Transition (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2007). Reviewed in Revista de Estudios Hipánicos 42.3 (2008): 591 – 2.
2008 A. Katie Harris. From Muslim to Christian Granada. Inventing a City’s Past in Early Modern Spain (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007). Reviewed in Iberoamericana VIII, 31 (2008): 207-209.
2008 David Wacks. Framing Iberia: Maqāmāt and Frametale Narratives in Medieval Spain. Leiden: Brill, 2007. Reviewed in The Medieval Review (08.09.04), 2008.
2007 Biblia del segle XIV: Èxode, Levític. Transcription by Jaume Riera i Sans. Critical Apparatus, Notes and Glossary by Pere Casanellas i Bassols. (Barcelona: Publicacions de L’Abadia de Montserrat, 2004). Reviewed in The Medieval Review (07.02.02), 2007.
2005 Judíos y musulmanes de al-Andalus. Contactos intelectuales. Seminario celebrado en la Casa de Velázquez (20–21 de febrero de 1997). (Madrid: Casa de Velázquez, 2002). Reviewed in The Journal of Arabic Literature 36:1 (2005): 103–106.
2004 Miguel [Daniel Leví] de Barrios. Complete Works. 3 vols. Edited by Moshe Lazar and F. Javier Pueyo Mena. Vol. 1. (Lancaster, CA: Labyrinthos, 2002). Reviewed in Hebrew Studies 45 (2004), pp. 101–104.
2004 Barbara Fuchs. Mimesis and Empire: The New World, Islam and European Identities. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001). Reviewed in Comparative Literature Studies 41:1 (2004): 176–179.
2002 Reginald Hyatte. The Prophet of Islam in Old French. The Romance of Muhammad (1258) and The Book of Muhammad’s Ladder (1264). English Translations, with an Introduction. (Leiden: Brill, 1997). Reviewed in The Medieval Review (02/03/01), 2002
