Jews in East Norse Literature : A Study of Othering in Medieval Denmark and Sweden / Jonathan Adams

What did Danes and Swedes in the Middle Ages imagine and write about Jews and Judaism? This book draws on over 100 medieval Danish and Swedish manuscr...
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Gespeichert in:
PPN (Katalog-ID):

1827845686

Personen:

Adams, Jonathan [VerfasserIn]

Medienart:

E-Book

Umfang:

1 Online-Ressource (XLII, 1192 p.)

Sprache:

Englisch

Anmerkung:

In English

Erschienen:

Berlin Boston: De Gruyter ; 2022

©2023

Auflage:

2 Volumes

weitere Schlagwörter:

HISTORY / Europe / Scandinavia

Ungezählte Reihe:

Religious Minorities in the North, History, Politics, and Culture - 4

Enthält:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Inhalte

Preface

Abbreviations

Editorial Procedure and Conventions

Medieval Scandinavia and Jews

1 Introduction

2 Jews in Medieval Denmark and Sweden

Sprache

3 Writing about Jews: A Guide to East Norse Terminology

4 The Language of the Jews: Knowledge about Hebrew in Medieval Scandinavia

Identifying “the Jew”

5 The Jewish Body: From Top to Toe

Killing Christ

6 Modelling Feelings and Behaviours: Jews and the Passion in Sermons and Devotional Literature

Demonstrating Christian Truth

7 Witnesses of Truth and Doctrine: Miracles, Saints’ Lives, and Exempla

8 Darkness and Light: Miracles, Saints’ Lives, and Exempla

The Jewish Peril: Past, Present, and Future

9 Jews in History: Exemplary Figures, Keepers of Relics, Tormentors of the Christ Child, and Absent Jerusalemites

10 The Jewish Plot to Destroy All Christendom: The Black Death and Well-Poisoning

11 The Jewish Threat to Destroy All Christendom: The Red Jews, Antichrist, and the Apocalypse

Conclusion

12 Conclusion

VOLUME II: TEXTS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

1 A Jew Converts and Speaks to his Sons from Heaven

2 A Jew Predicts St Basil’s Death

3 A Pregnant Jewish Woman’s Father Converts

4 A Sermon for Good Friday

5 A Sermon for Passion Sunday

6 Esther

7 Jerusalem in The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

8 Jesus Raises a Jew from the Dead

9 Judith

10 Mary of Bethezuba

11 Petronia and the Ring

12 Sermons for the Feast of the Circumcision

13 St Barnabas and the Jews

14 St Gamaliel the Elder Speaks to Lucian the Priest

15 St James the Great and the Sorcerer Hermogenes

16 St James the Great Converts Josiah the Jew

17 St James the Just and the Jews of Jerusalem

18 St Macarius and the Talking Skull

19 St Sylvester and the Disputation with the Twelve Jewish Scholars

20 The Antichrist

21 The Chains of St Peter

22 The Clay Birds

23 The Converted Jew and the Devil

24 The Disputation and the Miracle

25 The Emperor Hadrian

26 The Emperor Vespasian and Titus

27 The Enclosed Jews

28 The Fifteen Places

29 The Finding of the Holy Cross

30 The Flying Host and the Jew’s Son

31 The Helmeted Preface

32 The Hermit and the Jewess

33 The Host Desecration

34 The Jew and the Lightning Strike

35 The Jew and the Staff Filled with Gold

36 The Jew at the Devils’ Council

37 The Jew, the Axe, and St Nicholas

38 The Jew, the Fish, and the Host

39 The Jew, the Host, the Devil, and the Sieve

40 The Jew Who Attacked the Virgin Mary’s Bier

41 The Jew Who Stabbed the Icon

42 The Jewish Boy in the Oven

43 The Jews Who Found and Attacked an Image of Christ

44 The Life of Judas Iscariot

45 The Little Jewish Girl Rachel Who Joined a Nunnery

46 The Merchant’s Surety

47 The Pilgrims’ Guide to the Holy Land

48 The Punishment of the Jews

49 The Stoning of St Stephen

50 The Three Young Men in the Oven

51 The Virgin Mary Releases and Converts a Jewish Prisoner

52 Theophilus and the Devil

53 Well poisoning

54 Yael

List of Works

Bibliographie

Index

Bibliogr. Zusammenhang:

Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe: Jews in East Norse literature - Adams, Jonathan, 1971 -, Berlin : De Gruyter, 2023

Links:

Cover

ISBN:

978-3-11-077574-7

DOI/URN:

10.1515/9783110775747

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