IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1635: Anti-Jewish Hostility in Art and Literature, 1066-1189
Thursday 9 July 2015, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Centre for Medieval Literature, University of York & Syddansk Universitet, Odense |
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| Organiser: | George Younge, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York / Syddansk Universitet, Odense |
| Moderator/Chair: | Sethina Watson, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York |
| Paper 1635-a | Through a Gloss Darkly: Jews in the Glossed Books of the Bible (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Language and Literature - Latin, Monasticism |
| Paper 1635-b | Creating an Image: Depictions of the Jews in Anglo-Norman Manuscript Illumination (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Biblical Studies, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Lay Piety |
| Paper 1635-c | Preaching Discontent: The Jews in Early English Literature (Language: English) Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Middle English, Monasticism |
| Abstract | This session examines representations of the Jews in art and literature produced between the Norman Conquest and the coronation of Richard I (1189). While the papers focus on British sources, they do so from a European perspective, examining the impact of Jewish migration from the Rhineland and the influence of the Parisian schools. The speakers have been selected on account of their common interest in sources that are often overlooked by specialists of medieval Jewish culture, including glossed bibles, illuminated manuscripts, and vernacular sermons. Collectively, the papers consider how textual and visual materials contributed to the rise of anti-Jewish sentiment in the century leading up to the massacres of 1189/90. |