Hanna Gentili

My lecture tomorrow at La Sapienza is in Italian but I’m reposting in English in case of interest in a curious but immensely important moment in the history of Platonism, namely Cardinal Cusanus’s evaluation of Pseudo-Dionysius Platonism through his readings of Plato and Proclus.

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3 scholarships for the MA Jewish Studies at UCL, each worth £ 4,000:

- Hyman Hurwitz Scholarship in Jewish Languages
- Ada Rapoport-Albert Scholarship in Jewish Religious Life
- The Hebrew and Jewish Studies Scholarship in Jewish History and Politics

www.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewis...

European Magic and its Traditions - Jewish Magic - RESCHEDULED

Tomorrow (April 9), a conversation on Jewish magic in European intellectual history, with Moshe Idel (Jerusalem) and Saverio Campanini (Bologna): warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/jewis...

Thank you Michelle! Manuscripts manuscripts and more manuscripts 😍

✨ Very happy to start my Averroes Fellowship at the Thomas Institute in Cologne, looking at “Three forgotten texts about natural philosophy from Averroes’ circle and their Hebrew legacy” ✨

We are halfway through this year’s “Philosophy by Hand” Lecture Series and I very much look forward to talking about the power of the mise-en-page in Hebrew philosophical manuscripts and early printed texts next Tuesday! Both in person and online ✨

Fantastic to see my beloved Estellina Conat and #Hebrewprint among the protagonists of the Medieval Women exhibition at the British Library. Among the Hebrew treasures on display also the wonderful Maraviglia prayerbook ✨ #hebrewmanuscripts #renaissance

Many congratulations to the curators of the exhibition “Medieval Women: in their own words” which closed this weekend at the British Library, Julian Harrison and @eleanorjackson and all the people involved! An exhibition full of unique items and wit, truly enhancing visibility of women 👏

Very much looking forward to John Marenbon’s lecture today “Early Medieval Latin Manuscripts and the Social History of Logic,” part of our Philosophy by Hand Lecture Series, a collaboration between the HEPMASITE ERC project and @csmc-hamburg.bsky.social

That’s truly a wrap of 2024! I just got a copy of the FANTASTIC catalogue of the Medieval Women exhibition at the British Library where I wrote about my beloved Estellina Conat and the beginning of Hebrew print. Many thanks to the curators Eleanor Jackson and Julian Harrison for the amazing work!

Very much looking forward to my last conference of 2024, on Jewish and Christian weddings in the early modern period. Organised by @serenadinepi.bsky.social , Guido Bartolucci and Fernanda Alfieri at the University of Bologna ✨✨

Very much looking forward to Silvia di Vincenzo‘s upcoming hybrid lecture on December 18 (16:15-17:45 CET): “Philosophy at School: Intertwining Voices from the Margins of Arabic Philosophical Manuscripts”. Registration link: www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/en/register/...

Jews and State Building "Jews and State Building" published on 19 Dec 2024 by Brill.

Excited to announce the publication of Jews and State Building. A collective exploration of the Jewish role in state formation in pre-Unification Italy, the ultimate historical laboratory! 📚✨

brill.com/display/titl...

This is great news! Can’t wait to read it!

The opening lecture of our “Philosophy by Hand: the Agency of Manuscripts in Shaping Human Thought” is now available online here:
lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/en/l2go/-/get/…

Next up: Silvia di Vincenzo presenting her new ERC project on Arabic philosophical manuscripts on December 18, stay tuned! 👀✨

Thank you to the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame for the fantastic time! I am really honoured to have delivered this year’s Graduate Students Invited Lecture. ✨ You can see the recording here: loom.ly/R7DYnJo

🚨Must-read clickthrough for medievalists working on UK-held materials🚨
Appeals court appears to have upheld that non-derivative images of out-of-copyright works cannot be held in copyright = those repro fees must go.
(Esp of note given BL image dept's crisis.)

Thrilled to share that Columbia University Libraries is looking to add a new book conservator to their already wonderful team! Please share broadly. It's a wonderful opportunity to work with an incredible array of materials.

academic.careers.columbia.edu#!/130584

✨ 2024 news: I am very excited to join the HEPMASITE team as a research associate at the Institut für Jüdische Philosophie und Religion, Universität Hamburg, where I’ll be working on Hebrew medieval and Renaissance philosophical manuscripts. ✨

Hidden Treasures Event - Hidden Treasures

Last autumn I had the pleasure to participate in a wonderful event including brilliant national and international projects, you can read more about it here: t.co/bzXX5P0FEC

For more on Jewish heritage in the UK (and beyond!) have a look at the Hidden Treasures online platform celebratingjewisharchives.org 👀

Closing 2023 also meant saying goodbye to the British Library: grateful for this year as curator of the Hebrew collections, a year spent surrounded by treasures from Jewish communities around the world.