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13 - Jews and Anti-Judaism in Christian Religious Literature

from Part II - Medieval Times

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2022

Steven Katz
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Boston University
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The ways Jews were represented in several genres of medieval writing is examined. The change over time as new narratives developed is shown, and the role of visual imagery in the operation of such medieval texts is also considered.

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Print publication year: 2022

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Abulafia, A. S., Christian-Jewish Relations 1000–1300: Jews in the Service of Medieval Christendom (New York, 2011). A survey and analysis of the theological concept of Jewish “servitude” and of the ways it informed policies towards Jews in medieval Europe.Google Scholar
Bale, A., The Jew in the Medieval Book: English Antisemitisms, 1350–1550 (Cambridge, 2006). An analysis of the narratives involving Jews within English literature, in Latin and the vernacular, before and after the expulsion of 1290.Google Scholar
Cohen, J., Christ Killers: Jews and the Passion from the Bible to the Big Screen, (Oxford, 2007). This book explores the long history of representation of Jews in association with the Crucifixion, and points to intensification in text and image of the active role of the Jews in the Crucifixion, leaving a powerful legacy to Europe and the world.Google Scholar
Cohen, J., Living Letters of the Law: Ideas of the Jew in Medieval Christianity (Berkeley, CA, 1999). This book introduces the theology which underpinned the relations between Judaism and Christianity, and which also influenced the attitudes towards Jews within medieval polities.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lipton, S., Dark Mirror: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Jewish Iconography (New York, 2014). The development of the visual representation of the Jew is traced here with great care, and with attention to new developments in the course of the 12th century.Google Scholar
Lipton, S., Images of Intolerance: The Representation of Jews and Judaism in the Bible Moralisée (Berkeley, CA, 1999). A luxurious new type of illustrated bible was created in the early 13th century, and it offered a polemical interpretation of the relation between the Old and New Testaments, through word and image.Google Scholar
Odo of Tournai, On Original Sin and A Disputation with the Jew, Leo, Concerning the Advent of Christ, the Son of God: Two Theological Treatises, trans. and ed. Resnick, Irven M. (Philadelphia, 1994).Google Scholar
Rubin, M., Gentile Tales: The Narrative Assault on Late Medieval Jews (London, 1999).Google Scholar
Rubin, M., Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary (London, 2009). This study of ideas and practices associated with the Virgin Mary pays attention throughout to ideas about Jews and Judaism embedded in the theology and devotions associated with Mary.Google Scholar
Thomas of Monmouth, The Life and Passion of William of Norwich, trans. Miri Rubin (London, 2014). This is a translation of the sole manuscript (c. 1200) of the first known version of the child murder narrative against Jews, which was developed by a monk of Norwich Cathedral Priory in the 1150s.Google Scholar

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