Claire Gilbert holds a B.A. in Linguistics and History from Stanford University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Saint Louis University. Her work explores the politics of language in early modern Spain and the Western Mediterranean and has been supported by the Fulbright Program, Social Science Research Council, Huntington Library, Spain-U.S. Program for Cultural Cooperation, and the Chancellor’s Prize of the University of California.
This volume deals with the evidence from manuscripts and handwritten documents with multilingual and multigraphic structures in Arabic, Hebrew, Latin and Greek, conceived and designed to display texts in different languages or scripts, as well as addressing the historical context of these testimonia (their production, use and circulation) and focusing on problems inherent to multicultural societies.