Sefer ha-ma'asim in Medieval Northern France
by
Rella Kushelevsky
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
In the thirteenth century, an anonymous scribe compiled sixty-nine tales that became Sefer ha-ma’asim, the earliest compilation of Hebrew tales known to us in Western Europe*.* The author writes that the stories encompass “descriptions of herbs that cure leprosy, a fairy princess with golden tresses...