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Kabbalah and Knowledge Transfers in Early Modernity

The special issue “Kabbalah and Knowledge Transfers in Early Modernity” stems from a collective scholarly attempt to interrogate the fashioning and evolution of the many forms of Kabbalah, understood as a literary, religious, and intellectual phenomenon in early modern Europe, from the perspective of the contemporary knowledge-making processes.

Eulenspiegel, the Ass and the Learned Doctors of Erfurt

Eulenspiegel, the Ass and the Learned Doctors of Erfurt

To learn more about the fun being had here at the scholars’ expense, see Albrecht Classen, “Laughter as the Ultimate Epistemological Vehicle in the Hands of Till Eulenspiegel,” Neophilologus 92 (2008): 471–89. To read...