IMC 2005: Sessions
Session 202: Jews and Christians in the Visual Arts, I: Conversion and Resisting It
Monday 11 July 2005, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Katrin Kogman-Appel, Institut für Jüdische Studien, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster / Department of History of Art, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Debra Higgs Strickland, Department of History of Art, University of Edinburgh |
| Paper 202-a | The 'Judiezno': Depicting the Youthful Convert in the Cantigas de Santa Maria (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Hagiography, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 202-b | Two Faces of Eve (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Hebrew and Jewish Studies |
| Paper 202-c | The Tree of Life and the Tree of Death: The Hanging of Haman in Hebrew Manuscripts (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Art History - Painting, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | Our understanding of how Jews and Christians interacted in the Middle Ages, and how they perceived each other has changed significantly during the last decade or so. Recent research on the cultural history of the Jews has shown numerous modes of interaction and reaction. Whereas earlier publications on the image of the Jews in medieval and early modern art were primarily aimed at cataloguing and describing, recent works began to analyze these images in a broader historical context. The issue of conversion was dealt in this framework only marginally. The proposed papers deal with various issues of conversion as expressed in the arts from both the Christian and the Jewish point of view. |