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Representations of Jews in Late Medieval and Early Modern German Literature: Second Printing

Representations of Jews in Late Medieval and Early Modern German Literature: Second Printing

Martin, John D.
Brown, Peter D. G.

Paperback

Series: Studies in German Jewish History, Book 5

Literary CriticismReligion General German History

ISBN10: 3039107186
ISBN13: 9783039107186
Publisher: Peter Lang Uk
Published: Nov 14 2005
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
It is commonly held that medieval Christians viewed medieval Jews in exclusively negative terms. This is certainly the dominant opinion in much twentieth-century scholarship, and it is not wholly without justification. It is, however, an opinion that does not accurately reflect the breadth of medieval German Christian thinking about medieval German Jews. Drawing on Passion plays, hagiographical narratives and didactic literature, this monograph reveals a hitherto largely unacknowledged diversity in medieval German representations of Jews. In many of the best-attested texts from the late medieval and early modern periods, Jews appear in German literature as sympathetic, even morally exemplary figures.

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