Francisco Cintrón Mattei
@franciscocintron.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in Medieval Studies at Notre Dame. Historian of Al-Andalus and the Mediterranean. Writing on laws in translation and societies in transition | 🇵🇷
Two exciting new publications on Jewish theology in medieval Castile by Notre Dame’s own Jeremy Brown: ‘A World of Piety: The Aims of Castilian Kabbalah’ and ‘Light is Sown: The Cultivation of Kabbalah in Medieval Castile’ (with Avishai Bar-Asher). Can’t wait to read!
October 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Two exciting new publications on Jewish theology in medieval Castile by Notre Dame’s own Jeremy Brown: ‘A World of Piety: The Aims of Castilian Kabbalah’ and ‘Light is Sown: The Cultivation of Kabbalah in Medieval Castile’ (with Avishai Bar-Asher). Can’t wait to read!
Hard to celebrate this particular July 4th, but this week I’ve been browsing the Latin-Arabic Glossary of the Mozarabs (MS Leiden, University Library, Cod. Or. 231) where Latin liberatus (‘to be free’) is rightly glossed as hurrīya (‘freedom’) 🎆
July 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Hard to celebrate this particular July 4th, but this week I’ve been browsing the Latin-Arabic Glossary of the Mozarabs (MS Leiden, University Library, Cod. Or. 231) where Latin liberatus (‘to be free’) is rightly glossed as hurrīya (‘freedom’) 🎆
View from my room of the courtyard at Colegio María Cristina in El Escorial 😍
June 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
View from my room of the courtyard at Colegio María Cristina in El Escorial 😍
Looking forward to an exciting week filled with Arabic books and scribal hands at the Royal Library of San Lorenzo de El Escorial 📜
May 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Looking forward to an exciting week filled with Arabic books and scribal hands at the Royal Library of San Lorenzo de El Escorial 📜