A investigation into the thirteenth-century Norwich circumcision case and its meaning for Christians and Jews
In 1230, Jews in the English city of Norwich were accused of having seized and circumcised a five-year-old Christian boy named Edward because they "wanted to make him a Jew." Contemporaneous accounts of the "Norwich circumcision case," as it came to be called, recast this episode as an attempted ritual murder. Contextualizing and analyzing accounts of this event and others, with special attention to the roles of children, Paola Tartakoff sheds new light on medieval Christian views of circumcision. She shows that Christian characterizations of Jews as sinister agents of Christian apostasy belonged to the same constellation of anti-Jewish libels as the notorious charge of ritual murder. Drawing on a wide variety of Jewish and Christian sources, Tartakoff investigates the elusive backstory of the Norwich circumcision case and exposes the thirteenth-century resurgence of Christian concerns about formal Christian conversion to Judaism. In the process, she elucidates little-known cases of movement out of Christianity and into Judaism, as well as Christian anxieties about the instability of religious identity.
Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe recovers the complexity of medieval Jewish-Christian conversion and reveals the links between religious conversion and mounting Jewish-Christian tensions. At the same time, Tartakoff does not lose sight of the mystery surrounding the events that spurred the Norwich circumcision case, and she concludes the book by offering a solution of her own: Christians and Jews, she posits, understood these events in fundamentally irreconcilable ways, illustrating the chasm that separated Christians and Jews in a world in which some Christians and Jews knew each other intimately.
Автор: Remondino Peter Charles Название: History of Circumcision: From the Earliest Times to the Present ISBN: 0985994290 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780985994297 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2752.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Examines the pursuit of orthodoxy, and its consequences for the history of Christianity.
Автор: Thatcher, Tom (cincinnati Christian University) Название: Memory and identity in ancient judaism and early christianity ISBN: 1589839528 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781589839526 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 7414.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Fox, Yaniv Yisraeli, Yosi Название: Contesting inter-religious conversion in the medieval world ISBN: 1472480678 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472480675 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 23734.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The compositions of this volume discuss the phenomenon of inter-religious conversion in the Mediterranean and its hinterlands from the seventh to the seventeenth centuries. Taken together, they argue that the cultural and social implications of this phenomenon were mutually recognizable by contemporaries and therefore may be comparatively discussed.
Описание: This book breaks with three common scholarly barriers of periodization, discipline and geography in its exploration of the related themes of heresy, magic and witchcraft. The challenge of heterodoxy, especially as expressed in various kinds of heresy, magic and witchcraft, was constantly present during the period 1200-1650.
Автор: Louise Nyholm Kallestrup; Raisa Maria Toivo Название: Contesting Orthodoxy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe ISBN: 3319323849 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319323848 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12577.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book breaks with three common scholarly barriers of periodization, discipline and geography in its exploration of the related themes of heresy, magic and witchcraft. The challenge of heterodoxy, especially as expressed in various kinds of heresy, magic and witchcraft, was constantly present during the period 1200-1650.
Автор: Monnickendam, Yifat (tel-aviv University) Название: Jewish law and early christian identity ISBN: 1108480322 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108480321 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14890.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Using the writings of Ephrem, one of the earliest Syriac Christian writers, Yifat Monnickendam explores marriage, sexual relations and family law in late antique Christianity and the nature of Jewish-Christian relations. Of interest to historians of late antiquity, early Christianity and ancient Judaism.
Описание: The compositions of this volume discuss the phenomenon of inter-religious conversion in the Mediterranean and its hinterlands from the seventh to the seventeenth centuries. Taken together, they argue that the cultural and social implications of this phenomenon were mutually recognizable by contemporaries and therefore may be comparatively discus
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