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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810401903321

Autore

Soyer Francois

Titolo

Medieval antisemitism? / / Francois Soyer [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leeds : , : Arc Humanities Press, , 2019

ISBN

1-64189-009-6

1-64189-923-9

1-64189-008-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (96 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Past imperfect

Disciplina

305.8924009

Soggetti

Antisemitism - History - To 1500

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2020).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Historians, "Medieval Antisemitism," and the Problem of Anachronism -- Chapter 2. Judaism and the Jews in Medieval European Religious Thought -- Chapter 3. The Dehumanization and Demonization of the Medieval Jews -- Chapter 4. Purity of Blood: An Iberian Exception? -- Conclusion -- Further Reading

Sommario/riassunto

In this work, François Soyer examines the nature of medieval anti-Jewish sentiment and violence. Analysing developments in Europe between 1100 and 1500, he points to the tensions in medieval anti-Jewish thought amongst thinkers who hoped to convert Jews and blamed Talmudic scholarship for their obduracy and yet who also, conversely, often essentialized Judaism to the point that it transformed into the functional equivalent of the modern concept of race. He argues that we should not consider antisemitism as a monolithic concept but accept the existence of independent, historical meanings and thus of antisemitisms (plural), including 'medieval antisemitism' as distinct from anti-Judaism.