Bland The Artless Jew

Medieval and Modern Affirmations and Denials of the Visual
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-2357-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
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Autoren/Hrsg.

Bland, Kalman P.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 3

One Modern Denials and Affirmations of Jewish Art: Germanophone Origins and Themes 13

Two Anglo-American Variations 37

Three The Premodern Consensus 59

Four The Well-Tempered Medieval Sensorium 71

Five Medieval Beauty and Cultural Relativism 92

Six Twelfth-Century Pilgrims, Golden Calves, and Religious Polemics 109

Seven The Power and Regulation of Images in Late Medieval Jewish Society 141

Notes 155

Bibliograpby 201

Index 229

Über Autor(innen)

Kalman P. Bland is Professor of Jewish Studies and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Duke University. He is author of Epistle on the Possibility of Conjunction with the Active Intellect and has published widely in scholarly journals.