Nina Rowe

The Jew, the Cathedral and the Medieval City

Synagoga and Ecclesia in the Thirteenth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the Synagoga-Ecclesia motif in the thirteenth century and argues that the figures conveyed a political message of Christian ascendancy and Jewish submission.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 177mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 836g
• ISBN-13: 9781107649989
• ISBN-10: 1107649986
• Artikelnr.: 40512058

Autorenporträt

Nina Rowe is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Fordham University. The recipient of numerous fellowships and grants, she co-authored (with Sandra Hindman, Michael Camille and Rowan Watson) Manuscript Illumination in the Modern Age: Recovery and Reconstruction and co-edited (with David Areford) Excavating the Medieval Image: Manuscripts, Artists, Audiences - Essays in Honor of Sandra Hindman. She has published articles in the journals Gesta and Studies in Iconography, as well as in various edited volumes.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the Jew, the cathedral and the city; Part I. Imagining Jews
and Judaism in Life and Art: 1. The Jew in a Christian world: denunciation
and restraint in the age of cathedrals; 2. Ecclesia and Synagoga: the life
of a motif; Part II. Art and Life on the Ecclesiastical Stage - Three Case
Studies: Introduction to Part II: nature, antiquity and sculpture in the
early thirteenth century; 3. Reims: 'our Jews' and the royal sphere; 4.
Bamberg: the empire, the Jews and earthly order; 5. Strasbourg: clerics,
burghers and Jews in the medieval city; Epilogue: the afterlife of an
image.