Medieval Stereotypes and Modern Antisemitism

Informationen zum Autor Robert Chazan is Scheuer Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. His previous books include Barcelona and Beyond: The Disputation of 1263 and Its Aftermath (1992)! Daggers of Faith: Thirteenth-Century Christian Missionizing and Jewish Response (1989)! and European Jewry and the First Crusade (1987)! all published by California. Klappentext "Chazan's highly readable work raises large questions of great contemporary interest. . . . No one has made the argument, at least in so direct a way, that it was in the twelfth century for the first time that Christians began to think of contemporary Jews as a fundamentally malevolent force within Christian society."—Robert C. Stacey, author of The English Jews in the Middle Ages, 1066-1290 Zusammenfassung This work shows how damaging 12th-century stereotypes developed and goes on to chart the powerful, lasting role of the new anti-Jewish imagery in the historical development of antisemitism.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Chazan, Chazan Robert
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.08.1997
• EAN: 9780520203945
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20394-5
• No. of pages: 196
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; History, Europe, European History, RELIGION / Judaism / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, Judaism, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval