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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783784403321

Autore

Stow Kenneth R

Titolo

Jewish dogs [[electronic resource] ] : an image and its interpreters : continuity in the Catholic-Jewish encounter / / Kenneth Stow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2006

ISBN

0-8047-6789-0

1-4294-1603-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (338 p.)

Collana

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture

Disciplina

261.2/609

Soggetti

Blood accusation - History

Judaism - Relations - Catholic Church

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-308) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: equality, supersession, and anxiety -- Ambivalence and continuity -- The Bollandists and their work -- Richard of Pontoise and Philip Augustus -- The Jewish version: the Bollandist reconstruction vindicated -- A usable past -- Purity and its discontents -- Denouement.

Sommario/riassunto

'Jewish Dogs' is not a study of 'anti-Semitism' or 'anti-Judaism'. Instead, this text argues that to anchor claims of supersession, Catholics have viewed Jews as metaphoric - and sometimes not so metaphoric - dogs.