1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455260003321

Autore

Einbinder Susan L. <1954->

Titolo

Beautiful death [[electronic resource] ] : Jewish poetry and martyrdom in medieval France / / Susan L. Einbinder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2002

ISBN

1-282-15778-7

9786612157783

1-4008-2525-3

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Collana

Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world

Disciplina

892.4/0938296

Soggetti

Hebrew literature, Medieval - France, Northern - History and criticism

Martyrdom in literature

Martyrdom - Judaism

Judaism - France, Northern - History - To 1500

Jews - France, Northern - History - To 1500

Jews - Persecutions - France, Northern

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-209) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: The Medieval Poetry of Jewish Martyrdom -- ONE. Faith and Fury: Medieval Jewish Martyrological Poetry and Resistance to Conversion -- TWO. "The Fire Does Not Burn": The Emergence of a Martyrological Motif -- THREE. Burning Jewish Books -- FOUR. Wheels within Wheels: Literature, History, and Methodology -- FIVE. Une Bele Qedushah: Troyes 1288 -- SIX. Jonathan and His Magic Book: Paris 1290 -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

When Crusader armies on their way to the Holy Land attacked Jewish communities in the Rhine Valley, many Jews chose suicide over death at the hands of Christian mobs. With their defiant deaths, the medieval Jewish martyr was born. With the literary commemoration of the victims, Jewish martyrology followed. Beautiful Death examines the evolution of a long-neglected corpus of Hebrew poetry, the laments



reflecting the specific conditions of Jewish life in northern France. The poems offer insight into everyday life and into the ways medieval French Jews responded to persecution. They also suggest that poetry was used to encourage resistance to intensifying pressures to convert. The educated Jewish elite in northern France was highly acculturated. Their poetry--particularly that emerging from the innovative Tosafist schools--reflects their engagement with the vernacular renaissance unfolding around them, as well as conscious and unconscious absorption of Christian popular beliefs and hagiographical conventions. At the same time, their extraordinary poems signal an increasingly harsh repudiation of Christianity's sacred symbols and beliefs. They reveal a complex relationship to Christian culture as Jews internalized elements of medieval culture even while expressing a powerful revulsion against the forms and beliefs of Christian life. This gracefully written study crosses traditional boundaries of history and literature and of Jewish and general medieval scholarship. Focusing on specific incidents of persecution and the literary commemorations they produced, it offers unique insights into the historical conditions in which these poems were written and performed.



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996389754503316

Autore

Day Angel <fl. 1575-1595.>

Titolo

The English secretorie, or, Methode of writing of epistles and letters [[electronic resource] ] : with a declaration of such tropes, figures and schemes as either vsuallie, or for ornament sake are therein required. Also the parts and office of a secretorie. Deuided into two bookes. Now newly reuised, and in many parts corrected and amended: by Angel Day

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by Felix Kyngston, for William Welby, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church yard, at the signe of the Swan, 1614

Descrizione fisica

[8], 147 [i.e. 148], 133, [7] p

Soggetti

Letter writing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Printer's name from STC.

"A declaration of al such tropes and figures or schemes as for excellencie and ornament in writing, are especially vsed in this methode" has separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous.

With three final contents leaves.

P. 148 misnumbered 147.

Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113