Jew, the Cathedral and the Medieval City - Synagoga and Ecclesia in the Thirteenth Century

Informationen zum Autor Nina Rowe is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Fordham University. The recipient of numerous fellowships and grants, she co-authored (with Sandra Hindman, Michael Camille and Rowan Watson) Manuscript Illumination in the Modern Age: Recovery and Reconstruction and co-edited (with David Areford) Excavating the Medieval Image: Manuscripts, Artists, Audiences - Essays in Honor of Sandra Hindman. She has published articles in the journals Gesta and Studies in Iconography, as well as in various edited volumes. Klappentext Argues that in the thirteenth century! the Synagoga-Ecclesia motif conveyed a political message of Christian ascendancy and Jewish submission. Zusammenfassung This book examines the Synagoga-Ecclesia motif in the thirteenth century and argues that the figures conveyed a political message of Christian ascendancy and Jewish submission. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: the Jew, the cathedral and the city; Part I. Imagining Jews and Judaism in Life and Art: 1. The Jew in a Christian world: denunciation and restraint in the age of cathedrals; 2. Ecclesia and Synagoga: the life of a motif; Part II. Art and Life on the Ecclesiastical Stage - Three Case Studies: Introduction to Part II: nature, antiquity and sculpture in the early thirteenth century; 3. Reims: 'our Jews' and the royal sphere; 4. Bamberg: the empire, the Jews and earthly order; 5. Strasbourg: clerics, burghers and Jews in the medieval city; Epilogue: the afterlife of an image.

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• Authors: Nina Rowe, Nina (Fordham University Rowe, Rowe Nina
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2011
• EAN: 9780521197441
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19744-1
• No. of pages: 346
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Europe, European History, HISTORY / Jewish, ART / Subjects & Themes / Religious, ART / European, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, Jewish Studies, Medieval History, c 1000 CE to c 1500, c 500 to c 1000 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Relating to Jewish people and groups, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Religious subjects depicted in art, Religious and ceremonial art