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Jewish and Christian authors of the High Middle Ages not infrequently came into dialogue or conflict with each other over traditions drawn from ancient writings outside of the bible. Circulating in Hebrew and Latin translations, these included the two independent versions of the Testament of Naphtali. For Ruth Nisse, this is an emblematic...

Defining Acts considers how the surviving English plays of the fifteenth century and transform competing late-medieval practices of interpretation. These works take up a series of contests over who could legitimately determine the meaning of texts--men or women, clerics or laity, rulers or subjects, Christians or Jews--and stage these texts for audiences far beyond their original academic contexts. Ruth Nisse focuses in p, articular on how the...

Defining Acts considers how the surviving English plays of the 15th century represent and transform competing late-medieval practices of interpretation. These works take up a series of contests over who could legitimately determine the meaning of texts.