Language:
English
Pages:
158 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Year of publication:
1999
Keywords:
Antijudaismus
;
Buchmalerei
;
Manuskript
;
Mittelalter
;
Deutschland
Abstract:
In this provocative book Dr. Ruth Mellinkoff suggests that although manuscripts were executed under the supervision of Jewish scribes for Jewish patrons, the art work was carried out by Christian artists, who inserted signs of their loathing of Jews. Antisemitism was so ingrained in the cultural givings of the period, that neither scribes nor patrons saw them for the hate signs which in fact they were. Dr. Mellinkoff is renowned as one of the few scholars who prove that the unusual is commonplace in artistic representations.
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