Imagining The Jew In Anglo Saxon Literature And Culture
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Imagining The Jew In Anglo Saxon Literature And Culture
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Author : Samantha Zacher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Imagining The Jew In Anglo Saxon Literature And Culture written by Samantha Zacher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with LITERARY CRITICISM categories.
"Most studies of Jews in medieval England begin with the year 1066, when Jews first arrived on English soil. Yet the absence of Jews in England before the conquest did not prevent early English authors from writing obsessively about them. Using material from the writings of the Church Fathers, contemporary continental sources, widespread cultural stereotypes, and their own imaginations, their depictions of Jews reflected their own politico-theological experiences. The thirteen essays in Imagining the Jew in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture examine visual and textual representations of Jews, the translation and interpretation of Scripture, the use of Hebrew words and etymologies, and the treatment of Jewish spaces and landmarks. By studying the "imaginary Jews" of Anglo-Saxon England, they offer new perspectives on the treatment of race, religion, and ethnicity in pre- and post-conquest literature and culture."--
Imagining The Jew In Anglo Saxon Literature And Culture
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Author : Samantha Zacher
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2016-01-01
Imagining The Jew In Anglo Saxon Literature And Culture written by Samantha Zacher and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-01 with History categories.
The thirteen essays in Imagining the Jew in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture examine visual and textual representations of Jews before 1066.
Imagining The Jew In Anglo Saxon Literature And Culture
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Author : Samantha Zacher
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2016-08-04
Imagining The Jew In Anglo Saxon Literature And Culture written by Samantha Zacher and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
Most studies of Jews in medieval England begin with the year 1066, when Jews first arrived on English soil. Yet the absence of Jews in England before the conquest did not prevent early English authors from writing obsessively about them. Using material from the writings of the Church Fathers, contemporary continental sources, widespread cultural stereotypes, and their own imaginations, their depictions of Jews reflected their own politico-theological experiences. The thirteen essays in Imagining the Jew in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture examine visual and textual representations of Jews, the translation and interpretation of Scripture, the use of Hebrew words and etymologies, and the treatment of Jewish spaces and landmarks. By studying the “imaginary Jews” of Anglo-Saxon England, they offer new perspectives on the treatment of race, religion, and ethnicity in pre- and post-conquest literature and culture.
Jews In East Norse Literature
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Author : Jonathan Adams
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2022-12-05
Jews In East Norse Literature written by Jonathan Adams and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-05 with History categories.
What did Danes and Swedes in the Middle Ages imagine and write about Jews and Judaism? This book draws on over 100 medieval Danish and Swedish manuscripts and incunabula as well as runic inscriptions and religious art (c. 1200-1515) to answer this question. There were no resident Jews in Scandinavia before the modern period, yet as this book shows ideas and fantasies about them appear to have been widespread and an integral part of life and culture in the medieval North. Volume 1 investigates the possibility of encounters between Scandinavians and Jews, the terminology used to write about Jews, Judaism, and Hebrew, and how Christian writers imagined the Jewish body. The (mis)use of Jews in different texts, especially miracle tales, exempla, sermons, and Passion treaties, is examined to show how writers employed the figure of the Jew to address doubts concerning doctrine and heresy, fears of violence and mass death, and questions of emotions and sexuality. Volume 2 contains diplomatic editions of 54 texts in Old Danish and Swedish together with translations into English that make these sources available to an international audience for the first time and demonstrate how the image of the Jew was created in medieval Scandinavia.
Monsters And Monstrosity In Jewish History
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Author : Iris Idelson-Shein
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-02-21
Monsters And Monstrosity In Jewish History written by Iris Idelson-Shein and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-21 with Social Science categories.
This is the first study of monstrosity in Jewish history from the Middle Ages to modernity. Drawing on Jewish history, literary studies, folklore, art history and the history of science, it examines both the historical depiction of Jews as monsters and the creative use of monstrous beings in Jewish culture. Jews have occupied a liminal position within European society and culture, being deeply immersed yet outsiders to it. For this reason, they were perceived in terms of otherness and were often represented as monstrous beings. However, at the same time, European Jews invoked, with tantalizing ubiquity, images of magical, terrifying and hybrid beings in their texts, art and folktales. These images were used by Jewish authors and artists to push back against their own identification as monstrous or diabolical and to tackle concerns about religious persecution, assimilation and acculturation, gender and sexuality, science and technology and the rise of antisemitism. Bringing together an impressive cast of contributors from around the world, this fascinating volume is an invaluable resource for academics, postgraduates and advanced undergraduates interested in Jewish studies, as well as the history of monsters.
The Routledge Companion To Literature And Religion
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Author : Mark Knight
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-28
The Routledge Companion To Literature And Religion written by Mark Knight and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
This unique and comprehensive volume looks at the study of literature and religion from a contemporary critical perspective. Including discussion of global literature and world religions, this Companion looks at: Key moments in the story of religion and literary studies from Matthew Arnold through to the impact of 9/11 A variety of theoretical approaches to the study of religion and literature Different ways that religion and literature are connected from overtly religious writing, to subtle religious readings Analysis of key sacred texts and the way they have been studied, re-written, and questioned by literature Political implications of work on religion and literature Thoroughly introduced and contextualised, this volume is an engaging introduction to this huge and complex field.
Latinity And Identity In Anglo Saxon Literature
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Author : Rebecca Stephenson
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2016-01-01
Latinity And Identity In Anglo Saxon Literature written by Rebecca Stephenson and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-01 with History categories.
In this groundbreaking collection, ten leading scholars explore the intersections between identity and Latin language and literature in Anglo-Saxon England.
Debating With Demons
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Author : Christina M. Heckman
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2020
Debating With Demons written by Christina M. Heckman and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with History categories.
A consideration of the theme of demons as teachers in early English literature.
Postcolonising The Medieval Image
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Author : Eva Frojmovic
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-03-16
Postcolonising The Medieval Image written by Eva Frojmovic and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-16 with Art categories.
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1 The language of the postcolonial -- 1 Decolonising gold bracteates: From Late Roman medallions to Scandinavian Migration Period pendants -- 2 The Franks Casket speaks back: The bones of the past, the becoming of England -- 3 Camouflaging and echoing the Latin mass in an illuminated French-language missal -- Part 2 The location of the postcolonial -- 4 Mandeville's Jews, colonialism, certainty, and art history -- 5 Conquest and coexistence in sixteenth-century Granada: Imposing orders in the Alhambra's Mexuar -- 6 Beyond Foucault's laugh: On the ethical practice of medieval art history -- Part 3 The ambivalence of the postcolonial -- 7 Postcolonialising Thomas Becket: The saint as resistant site -- 8 Defining a merchant identity and aesthetic in Pisa: Muslim ceramics as commodities, mementos, and architectural decoration on eleventh-century churches -- 9 The Muslim warrior at the Seder meal: Dynamics between minorities in the Rylands Haggadah -- 10 Neighbouring and mixta in thirteenth-century Ashkenaz -- Bibliography -- Index
The Christian Jew And The Unmarked Jewess
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Author : Adrienne Williams Boyarin
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2020-10-30
The Christian Jew And The Unmarked Jewess written by Adrienne Williams Boyarin and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-30 with Religion categories.
In the Plea Rolls of the Exchequer of the Jews, Trinity Term 1277, Adrienne Williams Boyarin finds the case of one Sampson son of Samuel, a Jew of Northampton, arrested for impersonating a Franciscan friar and preaching false Christianity. He was sentenced to walk for three days through the centers of London, Canterbury, Oxford, Lincoln, and Northampton carrying the entrails and flayed skin of a calf and exposing his naked, circumcised body to onlookers. Sampson's crime and sentence, Williams Boyarin argues, suggest that he made a convincing friar—when clothed. Indeed, many English texts of this era struggle with the similarities of Jews and Christians, but especially of Jewish and Christian women. Unlike men, Jewish women did not typically wear specific identifying clothing, nor were they represented as physiognomically distinct. Williams Boyarin observes that both before and after the periods in which art historians note a consistent visual repertoire of villainy and difference around Jewish men, English authors highlight and exploit Jewish women's indistinguishability from Christians. Exploring what she calls a "polemics of sameness," she elucidates an essential part of the rhetoric employed by medieval anti-Jewish materials, which could assimilate the Jew into the Christian and, as a consequence, render the Jewess a dangerous but unseeable enemy or a sign of the always-convertible self. The Christian Jew and the Unmarked Jewess considers realities and fantasies of indistinguishability. It focuses on how medieval Christians could identify with Jews and even think of themselves as Jewish—positively or negatively, historically or figurally. Williams Boyarin identifies and explores polemics of sameness through a broad range of theological, historical, and literary works from medieval England before turning more specifically to stereotypes of Jewish women and the ways in which rhetorical strategies that blur the line between "saming" and "othering" reveal gendered habits of representation.