Nina Rowe

Jew, the Cathedral and the Medieval City (eBook, ePUB)

Synagoga and Ecclesia in the Thirteenth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

In the thirteenth century, sculptures of Synagoga and Ecclesia - paired female personifications of the Synagogue defeated and the Church triumphant - became a favoured motif on cathedral facades in France and Germany. Throughout the preceding centuries, the Jews of northern Europe prospered financially and intellectually, a trend that ran counter to the long-standing Christian conception of Jews as relics of the prehistory of the Church. In this book, Nina Rowe examines the sculptures as defining elements in the urban Jewish-Christian encounter. She locates the roots of the Synagoga-Ecclesia motif in antiquity and explores the theme's public manifestations at the cathedrals of Reims, Bamberg, and Strasbourg, considering each example in relation to local politics and culture. Ultimately, she demonstrates that royal and ecclesiastical policies to restrain the religious, social, and economic lives of Jews in the early thirteenth century found a material analog in lovely renderings of a downtrodden Synagoga, placed in the public arena of the city square.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139234108
• Artikelnr.: 52972983

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.