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Author | : Debra Higgs Strickland |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780691057194 |
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These images, which reached a broad and socially varied audience across Western Europe, appeared in virtually all artistic media, including illuminated manuscripts, stained glass, sculpture, metalwork, and tapestry.".
Author | : Debra Higgs Strickland |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Art, Medieval |
ISBN | : 9780300252927 |
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"During the crusades, Ethiopians, Jews, Muslims, and Mongols were branded enemies of Christian majority. This book reveals the pejorative ways these rejected social groups were represented - often as monsters, demons, or freaks of nature. It traces the origins of negative pictorial code used to portray monsters, demons, and non-Christian peoples"--Publisher's description.
Author | : Linda M.A. Stone |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2019-03-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 900439236X |
Download "Slay them not": Twelfth-Century Christian-Jewish Relations and the Glossed Psalms Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In "Slay them not", Linda Stone focusses on the existence and use of anti-Jewish polemic, and its roots, present in the three closely-linked twelfth-century glosses on the Psalms, written by Anselm of Laon, Gilbert of Poitiers and Peter Lombard.
Author | : Geraldine Heng |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 509 |
Release | : 2018-03-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108422780 |
Download The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book challenges the common belief that race and racisms are phenomena that began only in the modern era.
Author | : Sir Richard Francis Burton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : Islam |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Sophia Rose Arjana |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2015-01-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0199324948 |
Download Muslims in the Western Imagination Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A Choice 2015 Outstanding Academic Title Throughout history, Muslim men have been depicted as monsters. The portrayal of humans as monsters helps a society delineate who belongs and who, or what, is excluded. Even when symbolic, as in post-9/11 zombie films, Muslim monsters still function to define Muslims as non-human entities. These are not depictions of Muslim men as malevolent human characters, but rather as creatures that occupy the imagination -- non-humans that exhibit their wickedness outwardly on the skin. They populate medieval tales, Renaissance paintings, Shakespearean dramas, Gothic horror novels, and Hollywood films. Through an exhaustive survey of medieval, early modern, and contemporary literature, art, and cinema, Muslims in the Western Imagination examines the dehumanizing ways in which Muslim men have been constructed and represented as monsters, and the impact such representations have on perceptions of Muslims today. The study is the first to present a genealogy of these creatures, from the demons and giants of the Middle Ages to the hunchbacks with filed teeth that are featured in the 2007 film 300, arguing that constructions of Muslim monsters constitute a recurring theme, first formulated in medieval Christian thought. Sophia Rose Arjana shows how Muslim monsters are often related to Jewish monsters, and more broadly to Christian anti-Semitism and anxieties surrounding African and other foreign bodies, which involves both religious bigotry and fears surrounding bodily difference. Arjana argues persuasively that these dehumanizing constructions are deeply embedded in Western consciousness, existing today as internalized beliefs and practices that contribute to the culture of violence--both rhetorical and physical--against Muslims.
Author | : Joshua Trachtenberg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download The Devil and the Jews Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Malachi Haim Hacohen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 757 |
Release | : 2019-01-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108245498 |
Download Jacob & Esau Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Jacob and Esau is a profound new account of two millennia of Jewish European history that, for the first time, integrates the cosmopolitan narrative of the Jewish diaspora with that of traditional Jews and Jewish culture. Malachi Haim Hacohen uses the biblical story of the rival twins, Jacob and Esau, and its subsequent retelling by Christians and Jews throughout the ages as a lens through which to illuminate changing Jewish-Christian relations and the opening and closing of opportunities for Jewish life in Europe. Jacob and Esau tells a new history of a people accustomed for over two-and-a-half millennia to forming relationships, real and imagined, with successive empires but eagerly adapting, in modernity, to the nation-state, and experimenting with both assimilation and Jewish nationalism. In rewriting this history via Jacob and Esau, the book charts two divergent but intersecting Jewish histories that together represent the plurality of Jewish European cultures.
Author | : Andrei A. Orlov |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2015-02-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1438455836 |
Download Divine Scapegoats Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Explores the paradoxical symmetry between the divine and demonic in early Jewish mystical texts. Divine Scapegoats is a wide-ranging exploration of the parallels between the heavenly and the demonic in early Jewish apocalyptical accounts. In these materials, antagonists often mirror features of angelic figures, and even those of the Deity himself, an inverse correspondence that implies a belief that the demonic realm is maintained by imitating divine reality. Andrei A. Orlov examines the sacerdotal, messianic, and creational aspects of this mimetic imagery, focusing primarily on two texts from the Slavonic pseudepigrapha: 2 Enoch and the Apocalypse of Abraham. These two works are part of a very special cluster of Jewish apocalyptic texts that exhibit features not only of the apocalyptic worldview but also of the symbolic universe of early Jewish mysticism. The Yom Kippur ritual in the Apocalypse of Abraham, the divine light and darkness of 2 Enoch, and the similarity of mimetic motifs to later developments in the Zohar are of particular importance in Orlovs consideration.
Author | : Simone Luzzatto |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2019-07-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3110528231 |
Download Discourse on the State of the Jews Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In 1638, a small book of no more than 92 pages in octavo was published “appresso Gioanne Calleoni” under the title “Discourse on the State of the Jews and in particular those dwelling in the illustrious city of Venice.” It was dedicated to the Doge of Venice and his counsellors, who are labelled “lovers of Truth.” The author of the book was a certain Simone (Simḥa) Luzzatto, a native of Venice, where he lived and died, serving as rabbi for over fifty years during the course of the seventeenth century. Luzzatto’s political thesis is simple and, at the same time, temerarious, if not revolutionary: Venice can put an end to its political decline, he argues, by offering the Jews a monopoly on overseas commercial activity. This plan is highly recommendable because the Jews are “wellsuited for trade,” much more so than others (such as “foreigners,” for example). The rabbi opens his argument by recalling that trade and usury are the only occupations permitted to Jews. Within the confines of their historical situation, the Venetian Jews became particularly skilled at trade with partners from the Eastern Mediterranean countries. Luzzatto’s argument is that this talent could be put at the service of the Venetian government in order to maintain – or, more accurately, recover – its political importance as an intermediary between East and West. He was the first to define the role of the Jews on the basis of their economic and social functions, disregarding the classic categorisation of Judaism’s alleged privileged religious status in world history. Nonetheless, going beyond the socio-economic arguments of the book, it is essential to point out Luzzatto’s resort to sceptical strategies in order to plead in defence of the Venetian Jews. It is precisely his philosophical and political scepticism that makes Luzzatto’s texts so unique. This edition aims to grant access to his works and thought to English-speaking readers and scholars. By approaching his texts from this point of view, the editors hope to open a new path in research into Jewish culture and philosophy that will enable other scholars to develop new directions and new perspectives, stressing the interpenetration between Jews and the surrounding Christian and secular cultures.