IMC 2007: Sessions
Session 707: Jewish Images in Christian Society: Studies in Manuscript Illumination
Tuesday 10 July 2007, 14.15-15.45
Organiser: | Eva Frojmovic, Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Leeds |
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Moderator/Chair: | Colum Hourihane, Index of Christian Art, Princeton University |
Paper 707-a | Not Just a Wedding Scene: The Illumination of the Liturgical Poem Come with me from Lebanon my bride in the Worms Mahzor and the Jewish-Christian Polemic (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Theology |
Paper 707-b | Depictions of Jericho and Jerusalem in 16th-Century Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Paper 707-c | By Means of an Angel?: The Absence and Presence of Angels in Jewish Manuscripts (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Decorative Arts, Hebrew and Jewish Studies |
Abstract | Paper a: The illumination of the liturgical poem Come with me from Lebanon my bride, in the Worms Mahzor (Würzburg?, 1272), displays a wedding scene, commonly understood as an allegory of the relationship between God and Israel. Both the groom and the man performing the ceremony are shown wearing a red mantle. In the proposed paper, I suggest that this garment represents the 'Porphyrion', the red mantel of God, soaked with the blood of those who persecute the Jews, and who will be punished at the end of time. This assumption will be put in the context of medieval anti-Jewish persecution. |