Beyond the Yellow Badge
Anti-Judaism and Antisemitism in Medieval and Early Modern Visual Culture
Biographical note
Mitchell B. Merback, Ph.D. (1995), University of Chicago, is Associate Professor of Art History at DePauw University and author of The Thief, the Cross and the Wheel: Pain and the Spectacle of Punishment in Medieval and Renaissance Europe (London and Chicago, 1999).
Readership
All those interested in Christian-Jewish relations, anti-Judaism and antisemitism, the history of Christianity, European art of the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque periods, as well as general cultural history.
Table of contents
CONTENTS
Introduction
PART I: STAGES OF CONVERSION
Chapter One ‘Fair and Friendly, Sweet and Beautiful’: Hopes for Jewish Conversion in Synagoga’s Song of Songs Imagery
Elizabeth Monroe
Chapter Two Disputation in Stone: Jews Imagined on the Saint Stephen Portal of Paris Cathedral
Kara Ann Morrow
Chapter Three Taking Little Jesus to School in Two Thirteenth-Century Latin Psalters from South Germany
Eva Frojmovic
Chapter Four The Performative Terms of Jewish Iconoclasm and Conversion in Two Saint Nicholas Windows at Chartres Cathedral
Anne F. Harris
PART II: THE IMAGE OF THE JEW AND ITS PUBLIC
Chapter Five The Passion, the Jews, and the Crisis of the Individual on the Naumburg West Choir Screen
Jacqueline E. Jung37:23 PM
Chapter Six Idealization and Subjection at the South Façade of Strasbourg Cathedral
Nina Rowe
Chapter Seven The Jews, Leviticus, and the Unclean in Medieval English Bestiaries
Debra Higgs Strickland
Chapter Eight Constructing the Inimical Jew in the Cantigas de Santa Maria: Theophilus’s Magician in Text and Image
Pamela A. Patton
Chapter Nine Images of ‘Jud Süss’ Oppenheimer, an Early Modern Jew
Vivian B. Mann
PART III: “THE HEBREW TRUTH”
Chapter Ten Old Testament Heroes in Venetian High Renaissance Art
Paul D. Kaplan
Chapter Eleven Cleansing the Temple: The Munich Gruftkirche as Converted Synagogue
Mitchell B. Merback
Chapter Twelve New Attitudes towards the Jews in the Era of Reformation and Counter-Reformation: The Patronage of Bishop Echter von Mespelbrunn
Annette Weber
Chapter Thirteen Between Calvinists and Jews: Hebrew Script in Rembrandt’s Art
Shalom Sabar
Introduction
PART I: STAGES OF CONVERSION
Chapter One ‘Fair and Friendly, Sweet and Beautiful’: Hopes for Jewish Conversion in Synagoga’s Song of Songs Imagery
Elizabeth Monroe
Chapter Two Disputation in Stone: Jews Imagined on the Saint Stephen Portal of Paris Cathedral
Kara Ann Morrow
Chapter Three Taking Little Jesus to School in Two Thirteenth-Century Latin Psalters from South Germany
Eva Frojmovic
Chapter Four The Performative Terms of Jewish Iconoclasm and Conversion in Two Saint Nicholas Windows at Chartres Cathedral
Anne F. Harris
PART II: THE IMAGE OF THE JEW AND ITS PUBLIC
Chapter Five The Passion, the Jews, and the Crisis of the Individual on the Naumburg West Choir Screen
Jacqueline E. Jung37:23 PM
Chapter Six Idealization and Subjection at the South Façade of Strasbourg Cathedral
Nina Rowe
Chapter Seven The Jews, Leviticus, and the Unclean in Medieval English Bestiaries
Debra Higgs Strickland
Chapter Eight Constructing the Inimical Jew in the Cantigas de Santa Maria: Theophilus’s Magician in Text and Image
Pamela A. Patton
Chapter Nine Images of ‘Jud Süss’ Oppenheimer, an Early Modern Jew
Vivian B. Mann
PART III: “THE HEBREW TRUTH”
Chapter Ten Old Testament Heroes in Venetian High Renaissance Art
Paul D. Kaplan
Chapter Eleven Cleansing the Temple: The Munich Gruftkirche as Converted Synagogue
Mitchell B. Merback
Chapter Twelve New Attitudes towards the Jews in the Era of Reformation and Counter-Reformation: The Patronage of Bishop Echter von Mespelbrunn
Annette Weber
Chapter Thirteen Between Calvinists and Jews: Hebrew Script in Rembrandt’s Art
Shalom Sabar
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