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Workshop with Maya Shatzmiller: The Use and Abuse of the Geniza Documents: The Texts and the Numbers
Edmund-Rumpler Straße 9 Raum A 180 Edmund-Rumpler Straße, Munich, Bavaria, GermanyThe workshop participants will focus on two issues. First the unique value of the Genizah to the economic history of the medieval Middle East, of the quantitative data they provide. The second issue is why relying solely on the Geniza will produce misconstrued historical analysis.
Public Lecture with Maya Shatzmiller: The Use and Abuse of the Geniza Documents: Why It Matters
Amalienstraße 73A Raum 112 Amalienstraße 73A, Munich, Bavaria, GermanySixty years have passed since S. D. Goitein first drew attention to the Geniza documents as a unique source for writing the economic history of the Middle East. Since then, the work of researchers further documented how important are these documents, especially … Continued
