Language: English Karl J. Caldwell, Faculty of Music, University of Oxford. Language: English Jos Koldeweij.
Language: English Janet L. NUP is a large-scale social historical research project based on raw information gathered from some ninety medieval Arabic biographical dictionaries on the religious scholars of early Islam, which is then transformed systematically into an analytical computerised data set. In this workshop, the research, design and the most important findings of NUP will be presented and discussed.
Hass, School of History, University of Leeds. The workshop will begin with two presentations of successful technological approaches to the teaching of medieval cultures, and will move on to the exploration of the possibilities and challenges raised by these model programs.
We feel that this workshop will be of great value to our colleagues who are interested in integrating cutting-edge technology with sound scholarship and pedagogy in the teaching of medieval subjects. Stevens University of Winnipeg, Manitoba will be participating in this discussion. The totality of the textual and archaeological finds in turn casts new light on the character of Hebrew intellectual activity, as well as social and economic life, of the Jews in medieval England.
This discussion session will focus on one particular topic growing out of the findings, which has to do with the traditional and widely-held view that in England the institution designated as a 'schola judaeorum was non other than a synagogue - a view that, amongst medievalists, has come to mean either that schools of higher rabbinic i. Talmudic learning did not exist in medieval England or that at all events no proofs pointing to their existence or influence can be found.
