Jews and Christians in Medieval Europe : the historiographical legacy of Bernhard Blumenkranz / edited by Philippe Buc, Martha Keil and John Tolan.

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  • English
  • French
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  • Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2016]
  • ©2016
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383 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

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    "The name of Bernhard Blumenkranz is well known to all those who study the history of European Jews in the Middle Ages and in particular the history of Jewish-Christian relations. Blumenkranz was born in Vienna in 1913; he left for Switzerland during the war and obtained a doctorate at the University of Basel on the portrayal of Jews in the works of Augustine. He subsequently moved to France where his numerous publications revived and renovated the field of Jewish studies. The international group of scholars who wrote the fifteen essays in this volume, beyond paying homage to Blumenkranz's work, trace the trajectories of various lines of inquiry that he initiated: Christian theology of Judaism, problems of conversion and proselytism, geography and topography of Medieval Jewish communities, the representation of Jews in Christian art. These essays provide both an assessment of Blumenkranz's intellectual legacy and a snapshot of the evolution of the field over the last sixty years."-- Back cover.
    Notes
    "This volume contains the fruits of a conference organized at the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften in Vienna on 23-25 October 2013"--Page 7.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
    Language note
    Primarily in English, two essays in French.
    Contents
    • Medieval Christian-Jewish Relations in the Writings of Bernhard Blumenkranz/ Robert Chazan
    • The ambiguous notions of Jewish legal 'statutes' and 'status' in Blumenkranz's work / Capucine Nemo-Pekelman
    • Engagement with Judaism and Islam in Gratian's causa 23 / Anna Sapir Abulafia
    • Sacred objects in Jewish hands: Two case studies / Birgit Wiedl
    • Smoke in the Chapel: Jews and Ecclesiastical Institutions in and around Vienna During the Fourteenth Century / Eveline Brugger
    • What happened to the "New Christians"? The 'Viennese Geserah' of 1420/21 and the forced Baptism of the Jews / Martha Keil
    • Nostradamus' maternal great-grandfather from Marseilles: Neophyte networks and matrimonial strategies (1460-1496) / Danièle Iancu-Agou
    • The Epistle of Rabbi Samuel de Fez, what kind of a new strategy against Judaism? / Claire Soussen
    • Gazing into Bernhard Blumenkranz's Mirror of Christian Art: The Fourteenth-Century Tring Tiles and the Jewishness of Jesus in Post-Expulsion England / Debra Higgs Strickland
    • Jewish images on Christian coins: Economy and Symbolism in Medieval Germany / Eva Haverkamp
    • Eschatology in the Catalan Mappamundi / Katrin Kogman-Appel
    • L'Athènes des juifs. Sources hébraïques sur les juifs de Paris au Moyen Age / Gérard Nahon
    • Isaac Nathan: The last Jewish Intellectual in Provence / Ram Ben Shalom
    • The Peninsula as a Borderless Space? Towards a Mobility 'Turn' in the Study of Fifteenth-Century Iberian Jewries / Javier Castaño
    • 'Meet you in court' : legal practices and Christian-Jewish relations in the Middle Ages / Judith Olszowy-Schlanger
    • Être historien des juifs médiévaux en France après Bernhard Blumenkranz / Claude Denjean et Juliette Sibon.
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    ISBN
    • 9782503565163 ((paperback))
    • 2503565166 ((paperback))
    • 9782503565996
    • 2503565999
    LCCN
    2016434490
    OCLC
    922462157
    International Article Number
    • 9782503565163
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