Medieval Antisemitism?

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-64189-007-6
Verlag: ARC Humanities Press

Buch, Englisch, 104 Seiten, Format (B × H): 107 mm x 179 mm, Gewicht: 98 g

Reihe: Past Imperfect

In this work, François Soyer examines the nature of medieval anti-Jewish sentiment and violence. Analysing developments in Europe between 1100 and 1500, he points to the tensions in medieval anti-Jewish thought amongst thinkers who hoped to convert Jews and blamed Talmudic scholarship for their obduracy and yet who also, conversely, often essentialized Judaism to the point that it transformed into the functional equivalent of the modern concept of race. He argues that we should not consider antisemitism as a monolithic concept but accept the existence of independent, historical meanings and thus of antisemitisms (plural), including "medieval antisemitism" as distinct from anti-Judaism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Soyer, François

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Antisemitismus, Pogrome, Shoah
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Mittelalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Antisemitismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Historians, “Medieval Antisemitism,” and the Problem of Anachronism
Chapter 2: Judaism and the Jews in Medieval European Religious Thought
Chapter 3: The Dehumanization and Demonization of the Medieval Jews
Chapter 4: Purity of Blood: An Iberian Exception?
Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Soyer, François
François Soyer (PhD Cambridge 2007) is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of New England in Australia.