Beyond the yellow badge : anti-Judaism and antisemitism in medieval and early modern visual culture / edited by Mitchell B. Merback.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Merback, Mitchell B.

Series:

Brill's series in Jewish studies ; v. 37.

Brill's series in Jewish studies, 0926-2261 ; v. 37

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews in art.

Antisemitism in art.

Christian art and symbolism--Europe.

Christian art and symbolism.

Christianity and antisemitism--Europe.

Christianity and antisemitism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (600 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In thirteen essays by leading art historians, and a critical introduction by the editor, Beyond the Yellow Badge seeks to reframe the relationship between European visual culture and the changing aspect of the Christian majority’s negative conceptions of Jews and Judaism during the Middle Ages and early modern periods. By situating their subjects within a broad continuum of historical and critical issues, the authors inquire into such questions as the shifting politics of toleration and intoleration; the role played by anti-Judaic legends in the formation of Christian cults; the role of positive evaluations of Hebrew, Jewish learning and Christian hopes for Jewish conversion; and the transformation of religious anti-Judaism into its modern racial and nationalistic counterparts. The book will be of special interest to art historians, cultural historians, students of Christian theology and Jewish history, and to educated general readers. This book is also available in paperback.

Contents:

Preliminary material / M.B. Merback

Introduction / Mitchell B. Merback

Chapter One. ‘Fair and friendly, sweet and beautiful’: Hopes for jewish conversion in Synagoga’s song of songs imagery / Elizabeth Monroe

Chapter Two. Disputation in stone: Jews imagined on the Saint Stephen portal of Paris Cathedral / Kara Ann Morrow

Chapter Three. Taking little Jesus to school in two thirteenth-century latin psalters from south Germany / Eva Frojmovic

Chapter Four. The performative terms of jewish iconoclasm and conversion in two Saint Nicholas windows at Chartres Cathedral / Anne F. Harris

Chapter Five. The passion, the jews, and the crisis of the individual on the Naumburg west choir screen / Jacqueline E. Jung

Chapter Six. Idealization and subjection at the south façade of Strasbourg Cathedral / Nina Rowe

Chapter Seven. The jews, Leviticus, and the unclean in medieval english bestiaries / Debra Higgs Strickland

Chapter Eight. Constructing the inimical jew in the Cantigas de Santa Maria: Theophilus’s magician in text and image / Pamela A. Patton

Chapter Nine. Images of ‘Jud Süss’ Oppenheimer, an early modern jew / Vivian B. Mann

Chapter Ten. Old Testament heroes in venetian high renaissance art / Paul D. Kaplan

Chapter Eleven. Cleansing the temple: The Munich Gruftkirche as converted Synagogue / Mitchell B. Merback

Chapter Twelve. New attitudes towards the jews in the era of reformation and counter-reformation:The patronage of Bishop Echter von Mespelbrunn / Annette Weber

Chapter Thirteen. Between calvinists and jews: Hebrew script in Rembrandt’s art / Shalom Sabar

Selected bibliography / M.B. Merback

Index / M.B. Merback

Plates / M.B. Merback.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-418) and index.

ISBN:

1-281-92605-1

9786611926052

90-474-2386-0

OCLC:

567913920

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004151659.i-574 DOI