Past Imperfect. Medieval Antisemitism? / / François Soyer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Soyer, François,
• Place / Publishing House: Leeds : : ARC Humanities Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Past Imperfect
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (104 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Introduction --; 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 --; Further Reading
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781641890083; 9783110661521; 9783110737769; 9783110610765; 9783110664232; 9783110610741; 9783110606508
• DOI: 10.1515/9781641890083?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: François Soyer.

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. Is it possible to talk about antisemitism in the Middle Ages before the appearance of scientific concepts of "race"? 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. In a nuanced manner, he argues that, just as many historians now refer to "racisms" in the plural, 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.