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IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 1807: Anti-Jewish Climates in Northern Europe: Medieval and Post-Medieval

Thursday 8 July 2021, 16.30-18.00

Organisers:Cordelia Hess, Institutionen för historiska studier, Göteborgs Universitet
Kristin Skottki, Lehrstuhl für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Universität Bayreuth
Moderator/Chairs:Jonathan Adams, Department of Scandinavian Languages, Uppsala Universitet
Kristin Skottki, Lehrstuhl für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Universität Bayreuth
Paper 1807-aJews, Mary, and Conversion in Medieval Danish and Swedish Miracle Tales
(Language: English)
Jonathan Adams, Department of Scandinavian Languages, Uppsala Universitet
Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Religious Life, Sermons and Preaching
Paper 1807-bThe Blood Libel in an Early Preaching Exemplum from Llanthony Secunda Priory
(Language: English)
David Ross Winter, Department of History, Marshall University
Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Language and Literature - Latin, Religious Life, Sermons and Preaching
Paper 1807-cSternberg, 1492: On the Tenacity of Anti-Jewish Fake News
(Language: English)
Kristin Skottki, Lehrstuhl für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Universität Bayreuth
Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Religious Life
Paper 1807-dAhasver, Judas, and Pontius Pilate in Sweden, 13th-19th Centuries
(Language: English)
Cordelia Hess, Institutionen för historiska studier, Göteborgs Universitet
Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Religious Life
Abstract

All over medieval Europe, Christians developed textual traditions which fostered anti-Jewish climates. In some cases, these texts had direct connections to violent assaults on Jewish communities, in others, they rather formed a permanent hostile background to every day relations between Jews and Christians. And in yet other cases, as the medieval Nordic countries, these textual traditions formed Christian peoples' only contact with Judaism. In the first two papers of this session, we want to trace these textual traditions - legends, tales, sermons etc - and their protagonists from medieval to modern societies and discuss their potential for violence and their general impact on Jewish-Christian relations. The second two papers ask how medieval images, texts, and traditions survived in post-medieval times and how anti-Judaism continued to shape Jewish-Christian relations in later centuries.