Martyrdom, Conversion, and Shared Cultural Repertoires in Late Medieval Europe

Exploring a late medieval chapter in the long history of interpenetration between Jewish and Christian representations of martyrdom, this study seeks to contextualize Jewish accounts of the willing death in 1264 of a Christian convert to Judaism named Avraham ben Avraham avinu of Augsburg. According...

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Main Author: Tartakoff, Paola (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Penn Press 2019
In: The Jewish quarterly review
Year: 2019, Volume: 109, Issue: 4, Pages: 500-533
Further subjects:B Mendicants
B Dominicans
B cultural repertoire
B Franciscans; mission
B Blasphemy
B legend of the Jewish pope
B Conversion
B Martyrdom
B Avraham ben Avraham of Augsburg
B Sacrilege
B Jewish-Christian relations
B Chronicle of the Twenty-Four Generals
B Itamar Even-Zohar
B Apostasy
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