Medieval antisemitism?
In this work, Francois 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 ant…
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- Full title :Medieval antisemitism? / François Soyer.
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In this work, Francois 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 fromanti-Judaism.
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- Publication Date:2019
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- Publisher(s):Arc Humanities Press
- Place of Publication:Leeds
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2019
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- Description:1 ressource en ligne.
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- ISBN:1641890088, 1641890096, 9781641890083, 9781641890090
- oclc:on1239732376
- LC Classification:DS145
- Dewey Decimal:305.892/4
Table of Contents
Historians, "medieval antisemitism, " and the problem of anachronism -- Judaism and the Jews in medieval European religious thought -- The dehumanization and demonization of the medieval Jews -- Purity of blood : anIberian exception?
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