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The medieval Haggadah : art, narrative, and religious imagination / Marc Michael Epstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Epstein, Marc Michael, 1964- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Haggadah--Illustrations.
- Haggadah.
- Jewish illumination of books and manuscripts.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 pages) : color illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- In this beautifully illustrated book, historian Marc Michael Epstein explores four magnificent and enigmatic illuminated haggadot--manuscripts created for use at home services on Passover. They include the earliest known surviving illuminated haggadah: the Birds' Head Haggadah, made in Mainz around 1300, in which many of the faces on the human figures depicted throughout are replaced with those of birds. Also presented is the Golden Haggadah from Barcelona, c. 1320-30, along with two Spanish "siblings," the Rylands Haggadah and its purported Brother, made between 1330 and 1340, which share similar iconography and style. Though the importance of these manuscripts is universally acknowledged, Epstein examines them with fresh and creative eyes, offering insightful solutions to long-unresolved questions concerning the meaning of the art contained within them. In addition, he uses these treasured volumes as a springboard to address broader issues in the study of Jewish thought and culture.
- Contents:
- A note on the manuscripts
- introduction. Jewish visual culture as memory's mirror
- The Birds' Haggadah
- Birds' Head revisited
- Socioreligious stratification
- Narrative sequence
- Eucharistic polemics
- Metahistorical connections
- Eschatological hopes
- The Golden Haggadah
- Silence is golden
- Women hidden in plain sight
- The Rylands and "Brother" Haggadot
- Siblings : identical or fraternal?
- Iconography in dialogue
- Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-300-15894-7
- OCLC:
- 957127833
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