Marrakesh Dialogues

Carsten L.Wilke, Ph.D. (1994), is Associate Professor of Jewish Thought and Culture at Central European University Budapest. He has published on the religious history of the Jews in medieval and modern Europe.

• PrefacePart 1: Historical StudyIntroductionChapter 1: Retrieving a Jewish Renaissance classicChapter 2: Three Portuguese in Marrakesh, 1581Chapter 3: The author’s European Background, 1545-1581Chapter 4: The history of the text, 1581-1595Chapter 5: Invention of a Literary GenrePart 2: Textual History and CriticismChapter 6: Inventory of Manuscript SourcesChapter 7: Analysis of the textual transmissionChapter 8: Editorial CriteriaPart 3:Critical EditionConspectus SiglorumCommon TextGlossesAlphabetical Index in Ms. BAleixo de Menezes on the Marrakesh DialoguesPart 4: AnnotationsNotes on the Common TextNotes on the GlossesBibliographyList of Images

"The Marrakesh Dialogues has been mentioned only rarely in the scholarly literature, and Wilke’s edition and extended discussion constitute the first attempt at editing the text based upon all the textual evidence, placing it into its historical context, identifying the author and the dramatis personae of the text, analysing the treatise’s contents, and presenting it to a wide audience. He is successful because of his broad knowledge of the political and religious trends in early modern Europe, coupled with close familiarity with converso life and literature." -Daniel L. Lasker (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), Journal of Jewish Studies Vol. LXVII No. 2, pp. 428-35