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    Inventing William of Norwich : Thomas of Monmouth, Antisemitism, and Literary Culture, 1150–1200 (2022)
    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
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    ISBN: 9780812298536
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (296 p.) , 3 bw halftones
    Year of publication: 2022
    Series Statement: The Middle Ages Series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Blurton, Heather Inventing William of Norwich
    RVK:
    HH 4054
    Keywords: LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval ; Cultural Studies ; Literature ; Medieval and Renaissance Studies ; De vita et passione Sancti Willelmi Martyris Norwicensis ; Antisemitismus
    Abstract: William of Norwich is the name of a young boy purported to have been killed by Jews in or about 1144, thus becoming the victim of the first recorded case of such a ritual murder in Western Europe and a seminal figure in the long history of antisemitism. His story is first told in Thomas of Monmouth's The Life and Miracles of William of Norwich, a work that elaborates the bizarre allegation, invented in twelfth-century England, that Jews kidnapped Christian children and murdered them in memory and mockery of the crucifixion of Christ.In Inventing William of Norwich Heather Blurton resituates Thomas's account by offering the first full analysis of it as a specifically literary work. The second half of the twelfth century was a time of great literary innovation encompassing an efflorescence of saints' lives and historiography, as well as the emergence of vernacular romance, Blurton observes. She examines The Life and Miracles within the framework of these new textual developments and alongside innovations in liturgical and devotional practices to argue that the origin of the ritual murder accusation is imbricated as much in literary culture as it is in the realities of Christian-Jewish relations or the emergence of racially based discourses of antisemitism. Resisting the urge to interpret this first narrative of the blood libel with the hindsight knowledge of later developments, she considers only the period from about 1150-1200. In so doing, Blurton redirects critical attention away from the social and economic history of the ritual murder accusation to the textual genres and tastes that shaped its forms and themes and provided its immediate context of reception. Thomas of Monmouth's narrative in particular, and the ritual murder accusation more generally, were strongly shaped by literary convention
    Note: In English
    DOI: 10.9783/9780812298536
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    Reclaiming biblical heroines : portrayals of Judith, Esther and the Shulamite in early twentieth century Jewish art (2023)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 9789004472662
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 326 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Year of publication: 2023
    Series Statement: Brill's series in Jewish studies volume 75
    Series Statement: Brill's series in Jewish studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Czekanowska-Gutman, Monika Reclaiming biblical heroines
    RVK:
    AN 35967
    Keywords: Judith Art ; Esther Art ; Shulamite Art ; Esther, Queen of Persia Art ; Judith (Biblical figure) Art ; Shulamite (Biblical figure) Art ; Bible Illustrations ; Women in art ; Women in the Bible ; Art History ; Bible. Old Testament Illustrations ; Jüdische Kunst ; Ester Biblische Person ; Judit Biblische Person ; Schulammit Biblische Person ; Geschichte 1900-1999
    Abstract: "Although recently more studies have been devoted to the representations of biblical heroines in modern European art, less is known about the contribution to the portrayals of biblical women by modern Jewish artists. This monograph explores why and how heroines of the Scripture: Judith, Esther and the Shulamite received a particular meaning for acculturated Jewish artists originating from the Polish lands in the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first two decades of the twentieth century. It convincingly proves that artworks by Maurycy Gottlieb, Wilhem Wachtel, Ephraim Moses Lilien, Maurycy Minkowski, Samuel Hirszenberg and Boris Schatz significantly differed from renderings of contemporary non-Jewish artists, adopting a "Jewish perspective", creating complex and psychological portrayals of the heroines inspired by Jewish literature and as well as by historical and cultural phenomena of Jewish revival and the cultural Zionism movement"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , Erscheinungsdatum laut Frontpage 07 Nov 2022
    DOI: 10.1163/9789004472662
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