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This collection revisits the complex subject of medieval visual representations of Jews and Judaism by themselves and by Christians. The topics range from questions of Jewish identity in Iberian illuminated Hebrew manuscripts (13th-14th centuries) to representations of Synagoga and Judas in the Bible Moralisée and cathedral sculpture, to early modern Jewish self-images. The essays are prefaced by a critical study of the discovery of medieval Jewish art among art historians and cultural activists ca. 1900-35. The volume will be of value to art historians, as well as medieval and early modern historians with an interest in Jewish culture and Jewish-Christian relations.
Contributors include: Michael Batterman, Marc Michael Epstein, Eva Frojmovic, Thomas Hubka, Sara Lipton, Annette Weber, and Diane Wolfthal.
Contributors include: Michael Batterman, Marc Michael Epstein, Eva Frojmovic, Thomas Hubka, Sara Lipton, Annette Weber, and Diane Wolfthal.
Price: $168.00
Pages: 338
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Cultures, Beliefs and Traditions: Medieval and Early Modern Peoples
Publication Date:
30 August 2002
ISBN: 9789004125650
Format: Hardcover
'This beautifully edited book is among the most sophisticated texts on the subject. Combining many of the most authoritative, scholarly voices today writing on Jewish representation, the book studies the Jewish-Christian polemic from manifold perspectives, incorporating the theological, political, and cultural debates within the Jewish and Christian contexts. This volume is a significant contribution to art historical and historical scholarship as well as to the field of religious studies.'
Dana E. Katz, Sixteenth Century Journal, 2004.
'...this volume of essays makes an important contribution to an expanding and increasingly refined field.'
Nina Rowe, H-Net Reviews, 2003.
Dana E. Katz, Sixteenth Century Journal, 2004.
'...this volume of essays makes an important contribution to an expanding and increasingly refined field.'
Nina Rowe, H-Net Reviews, 2003.
Eva Frojmovic, Ph.D. (1993) in Art History, University of Munich, is Director of the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Leeds. She has published on allegorical painting in the age of Giotto, and on Hebrew manuscript illumination.