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In Beyond Faith: Belief, Morality and Memory in a Fifteenth-Century Judeo-Iberian Manuscript, Michelle M. Hamilton sheds light on the concerns of Jewish and converso readers of the generation before the Expulsion. Using a mid-fifteenth-century collection of Iberian vernacular literary, philosophical and religious texts (MS Parm. 2666) recorded in Hebrew characters as a lens, Hamilton explores how its compiler or compilers were forging a particular form of personal, individual religious belief, based not only on the Judeo-Andalusi philosophical tradition of medieval Iberia, but also on the Latinate humanism of late 14th and early 15th-century Europe. The form/s such expressions take reveal the contingent and specific engagement of learned Iberian Jews and conversos with the larger Iberian, European and Arab Mediterranean cultures of the 15th-century.

Michelle M. Hamilton, Ph.D. (2001), University of California, Berkeley, is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She has published extensively of the literatures and cultures of medieval Iberia, including Representing Others in Medieval Iberia (Palgrave, 2007). She is co-editor of the forthcoming In and Of the Mediterranean: Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Studies (Vanderbilt, 2014).