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Enter the worlds of the Rishonim and early Achronim.

Rishonim (Medieval Period)

When Were the “Middle Ages”? Periodization and Why it Matters

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Letter of Shmuel ben Mordechai about Rambam as Kabbalist, Vat Ms. Neofiti.11, fol. 325r — Rambam as Kabbalist: An Early Account

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אגרת שבת, אבן עזרא — Ibn Ezra in England

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Catalan Atlas — The Jewish Mapmakers of Majorca

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Achronim (Early Modernity)

ברטינורא אגרות ארץ ישראל - British Library Ms. Add. 27078 — Premodern Travel to Israel and the Aliyah of R. Ovadia Bartenura in 1486-88

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Mantua, Italy - 1575 map — Yedidya Norzi and Menachem Lonzano: An Early Modern Tale of Two Biblical Scholars

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