Chinese porcelain and the material taxonomies of medieval Rabbinic law: encounters with disruptive substances in
dc.cclicence | CC-BY-NC-ND | en |
dc.contributor.author | Lambourn, E. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Ackerman-Lieberman, Philip | en |
dc.date.acceptance | 2015-09-18 | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-03-03T12:00:37Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-03-03T12:00:37Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-12 | |
dc.description | Co-authored with Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman, Vanderbilt University, USA. | en |
dc.description.abstract | This article focuses on a set of legal questions about sini vessels (literally, "Chinese" vessels) sent from the Jewish community in Aden to Fustat (Old Cairo) in the mid-1130s CE and now preserved among the Cairo genius holdings in Cambridge University Library. This is the easiest dated and localised query about the status of sini vessels with respect to the Jewish law of vessels used fr food consumption. Our analysis of these queries suggests that their phrasing and timing can be linked to the contemporaneous appearance in the Yemen of a new type of Chinese ceramic ware, qingbai, which confounded and destabilised the material taxonomies underpinning rabbinic Judaism. Marshalling evidence from contemporary Jewish legal compendia and other writings produced in this milieu, our discussion substantially advances interpretive angles first suggested by S.D. Goitein and Mordechai A. Friedman to examine the efforts of Adeni Jews to place this Chinese ceramic fabric among already legislated substances, notably the "neighbouring" substances of glass and earthenware, in order to derive clear rules for the proper use and purification of vessels manufactured from it. | en |
dc.funder | The Leverhulme Trust | en |
dc.identifier.citation | Lambourn, E. and P. Ackerman-Lieberman (2016) Chinese porcelain and the material taxonomies of medieval Rabbinic law: encounters with disruptive substances in twelfth century Aden. The Medieval Globe: 2, (2) pp. 199-238 | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.17302/TMG.2-2.8 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2377-3561 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2086/13389 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.peerreviewed | Yes | en |
dc.projectid | F00793E | en |
dc.publisher | ARC Humanities Press | en |
dc.researchgroup | History Research Group | en |
dc.researchinstitute | Institute of History | en |
dc.researchinstitute | Institute of Art and Design | en |
dc.subject | Indian Ocean; Middle East; History; Material culture | en |
dc.subject | Aden, Yemen, China, 'India Book,' Cairo Geniza, Judaism, medieval, Middle Ages, ceramic, porcelain, qingbai, glass earthenware, halakha, purity, purification, pollution, kosher, koshering, menstruation, material taxonomies | en |
dc.title | Chinese porcelain and the material taxonomies of medieval Rabbinic law: encounters with disruptive substances in | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
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