Crafting Jewishness in Medieval England: Legally Absent, Virtually Present
With her study, Krummel takes us on a ghost hunt. It is an arduous task, and on the way the author seeks to look for ghosts in a variety of documents, illustrations, and literary works that span several centuries. The trail begins by comparing Johnny Hart's cartoon “The Seven Last ‘Words’ of Je...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2012
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2012, Volume: 54, Issue: 2, Pages: 289-291 |
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| Summary: | With her study, Krummel takes us on a ghost hunt. It is an arduous task, and on the way the author seeks to look for ghosts in a variety of documents, illustrations, and literary works that span several centuries. The trail begins by comparing Johnny Hart's cartoon “The Seven Last ‘Words’ of Jesus” of 2001 with a 1280 depiction of Abraham preparing to sacrifice Isaac. Early on, the author sets out her belief: “As I see it, these medieval anti-Jewish gestures express colonizing impulses that sought to mine the Jewish scriptures in order to construct a Christian history” (p. 5). The introduction takes a long time to set the scene for what is to come and does not actually come to grips head on with what is simply “pure raw Jew hatred” or Robert Bartlett's new biological racism (p. 16). |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/css029 |