Participants in this interdisciplinary workshop will explore the impact of genre on the reception of legal traditions, and thus, on the shaping of discrete legal cultures. The collaboration of established and emerging scholars of legal traditions of Late Antiquity, and of medieval Jewish, Christian and Islamic cultures, may facilitate a synoptic perspective that cannot be achieved when conducting research in isolation, and may even make apparent certain regional commonalities that cross the boundaries of faith and culture.

For more information contact:

Dr. Talya Fishman - tfishman@sas.upenn.edu