ISBN:
9004102558
Language:
Latin
Pages:
VIII, 420 S.
,
Ill.
Year of publication:
1995
Series Statement:
Studies in medieval and Reformation thought 55
Series Statement:
Studies in medieval and Reformation thought
Dissertation note:
Zugl.: Tuscon, Ariz., Univ. of Arizona, Diss., 1993
DDC:
305.892/404/0902
Keywords:
Geschichte 1500-1600
;
Geistesgeschichte 600-1500
;
Geschichte 1200-1600
;
Antisemitisme
;
Antisémitisme - Histoire
;
Christianisme et antisémitisme
;
Judaïsme (Théologie chrétienne) - Histoire des doctrines - 16e siècle
;
Judaïsme (Théologie chrétienne) - Histoire des doctrines - 600-1500 (Moyen-Age)
;
Antisemitismus
;
Geschichte
;
Antisemitism History
;
Christianity and antisemitism
;
Judaism (Christian theology) History of doctrines 16th century
;
Judaism (Christian theology) History of doctrines Middle Ages, 600-1500
;
Judaisierende
;
Antichrist
;
Antisemitismus
;
Christentum
;
Antijudaismus
;
Begriff
;
Deutschland
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Deutschland
;
Antichrist
;
Begriff
;
Antijudaismus
;
Geschichte 1200-1600
;
Antijudaismus
;
Geschichte 1200-1600
;
Antisemitismus
;
Christentum
;
Geschichte 1200-1600
;
Judaisierende
;
Geistesgeschichte 600-1500
Abstract:
This book is the history of an imaginary people - the Red Jews - in vernacular sources from medieval and early modern Germany. From the twelfth to the seventeenth century, German-language texts repeated and embroidered on an antisemitic tale concerning an epochal threat to Christianity, the Red Jews. This term, which expresses a medieval conflation of three separate traditions (the biblical destroyers Gog and Magog, the 'unclean peoples' enclosed by Alexander, and the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel), is a hostile designation of wickedness. The Red Jews played a major role in late medieval popular exegesis and literature, and appeared in a hitherto-unnoticed series of sixteenth-century pamphlets, in which they functioned as the medieval 'spectacles' through which contemporaries viewed such events as Turkish advances in the Near and Middle East. The Red Jews disappear from the sources after 1600, and consequently never found their way into historical scholarship.
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