Language:
English
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish History
Angaben zur Quelle:
12,1 (1998) 47-69
Keywords:
Mary Cult
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History
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Carew-Poyntz Hours
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Books of hours
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Devotional literature, English (Middle) Early works to 1800
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Antisemitism History 14th century
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Antisemitism History 15th century
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Christianity and antisemitism History To 1500
Abstract:
Despite the fact that no practicing Jews resided in England in the 14th and 15th centuries, English devotional literature of the period is rife with demonizing images of biblical and medieval Jews - as blasphemers, Host desecrators, and perpetrators of ritual crucifixion. Anti-Judaic images and ideas were closely associated with devotion to the cult of Mary in late medieval England. Books of Hours were popular amongst the aristocracy (particularly women). The most sustained program of anti-Judaic images is found in the Carew-Poyntz Hours, Cambridge Fitzwilliam Ms. 48, a luxuriously illustrated 15th-century manuscript, the work of several artists working across a century. Expressive of the cult of Mary, it contains a broad assortment of anti-Judaic religious imagery, with Jews violating Catholic sacraments as a unifying theme.
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