Beyond the yellow badge : : anti-Judaism and antisemitism in medieval and early modern visual culture / / edited by Mitchell B. Merback.

In thirteen essays by leading art historians, and a critical introduction by the editor, Beyond the Yellow Badge seeks to reframe the relationship between European visual culture and the changing aspect of the Christian majority’s negative conceptions of Jews and Judaism during the Middle Ages and e...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Brill's series in Jewish studies, v. 37
TeilnehmendeR:
Year of Publication:2008
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Brill's series in Jewish studies ; v. 37.
Physical Description:1 online resource (600 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material / M.B. Merback
  • Introduction / Mitchell B. Merback
  • Chapter One. ‘Fair and friendly, sweet and beautiful’: Hopes for jewish conversion in Synagoga’s song of songs imagery / Elizabeth Monroe
  • Chapter Two. Disputation in stone: Jews imagined on the Saint Stephen portal of Paris Cathedral / Kara Ann Morrow
  • Chapter Three. Taking little Jesus to school in two thirteenth-century latin psalters from south Germany / Eva Frojmovic
  • Chapter Four. The performative terms of jewish iconoclasm and conversion in two Saint Nicholas windows at Chartres Cathedral / Anne F. Harris
  • Chapter Five. The passion, the jews, and the crisis of the individual on the Naumburg west choir screen / Jacqueline E. Jung
  • Chapter Six. Idealization and subjection at the south façade of Strasbourg Cathedral / Nina Rowe
  • Chapter Seven. The jews, Leviticus, and the unclean in medieval english bestiaries / Debra Higgs Strickland
  • Chapter Eight. Constructing the inimical jew in the Cantigas de Santa Maria: Theophilus’s magician in text and image / Pamela A. Patton
  • Chapter Nine. Images of ‘Jud Süss’ Oppenheimer, an early modern jew / Vivian B. Mann
  • Chapter Ten. Old Testament heroes in venetian high renaissance art / Paul D. Kaplan
  • Chapter Eleven. Cleansing the temple: The Munich Gruftkirche as converted Synagogue / Mitchell B. Merback
  • Chapter Twelve. New attitudes towards the jews in the era of reformation and counter-reformation:The patronage of Bishop Echter von Mespelbrunn / Annette Weber
  • Chapter Thirteen. Between calvinists and jews: Hebrew script in Rembrandt’s art / Shalom Sabar
  • Selected bibliography / M.B. Merback
  • Index / M.B. Merback
  • Plates / M.B. Merback.