Language:
Dutch
Year of publication:
1991
Titel der Quelle:
Ter Herkenning; tijdschrift voor Christenen en Joden
Angaben zur Quelle:
19,4 (1991) 271-280
Keywords:
Jews History Expulsion, 1492
;
Jews History Middle Ages, 500-1500
Abstract:
Discusses the antisemitic views of Peter Martyr (Pietro Martire Vermigli), an Italian teacher and diplomat (1457-1526), regarding the Jews and their expulsion from Spain, expressed in his writings collected in "Opus Epistolarum", published in 1530 (reprinted in 1670). Focuses on the following: letter no. 14, addressed to Queen Isabella on 6 May 1488, in which he praises her battle against the perfidy of the Jews; letter no. 92 to Cardinal Arcimboldi (11 March 1492), in which he calls Jews deceivers who adore gold and who have contagious relations with Christians; letter no. 94 (20 March 1492) to Borromeus, count of Arona, in which he calls Jews a deceitful race which contaminates Christians with its superstition. Discusses anti-Jewish stereotypes expressed in a report (in 1501) on a diplomatic mission to Cairo, depicting Jews as liars and robbers, and as a disease, repulsive, lewd, vicious, and a people which hates humanity. Argues that Petrus' obsession with Jews as deceivers and Jewry as an illness cannot be explained by his antisemitism or religious conformism alone, but must be seen within a personal, historical, and philological context.
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