The Red Jews: Antisemitism in an Apocalyptic Age, 1200-1600 / / Andrew Colin Gow.

• Superior document: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions ; 55
• VerfasserIn: Gow, Andrew Colin,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 1994.
• Year of Publication: 1994
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions ; 55.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

This book is the history of an imaginary people - the Red Jews - in vernacular sources from medieval and early modern Germany. From the twelfth to the seventeenth century, German-language texts repeated and embroidered on an antisemitic tale concerning an epochal threat to Christianity, the Red Jews...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / Andrew Colin Gow
• Acknowledgements / Andrew Colin Gow
• Chapter One Inventio rerum et locorum: Finding a Forgotten History / Andrew Colin Gow
• Chapter Two Apocalypticism and Messianismi: Christian and Jewish Perspectives on the End in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages / Andrew Colin Gow
• Chapter Three Antisemitism and Apocalypticism in the Middle Ages / Andrew Colin Gow
• Chapter Four The Red Jews in their 'Native Habitat' / Andrew Colin Gow
• Chapter Five The Medieval Antichrist and his Jewish Henchmen / Andrew Colin Gow
• Chapter Six A Medieval Legend in the Sixteenth Century: Pious and Political Permutations / Andrew Colin Gow
• Chapter Seven Approaches to the End / Andrew Colin Gow
• Appendix A The Red Jews in Medieval and Early Modern Sources / Andrew Colin Gow
• Appendix B The 'Unclean Nations', Gog and Magog, and the Ten Tribes / Andrew Colin Gow
• Appendix C Antichrist and the Jews at the End of Time / Andrew Colin Gow
• Appendix D Illustrations / Andrew Colin Gow
• Bibliography / Andrew Colin Gow
• Index of Places / Andrew Colin Gow
• Index of Names / Andrew Colin Gow
• Subject Index / Andrew Colin Gow
• Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought / Editor: Heiko A. Oberman.