Contribution to Book
‘Him Jesus, That Jew!’—Representing Jewishness in the York Plays
Jews in Medieval Christendom: Slay Them Not
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
9-15-2013
Abstract
In Jews in Medieval Christendom: Slay Them Not, an international group of scholars from numerous disciplines examines the manifold ways that medieval Christians coped with the presence of Jews in their midst. The collection’s touchstone comes from St. Augustine’s interpretation of Psalm 59:11: “Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down,” as it applied to Jews in Christendom, an interpretation that deeply affected medieval Christian strategies for dealing with Jews in Europe. This collection analyzes how medieval writers and artists, often explicitly invoking Augustine, employed his teachings on these strangers within Christian Europe.
Inclusive pages
287-311
ISBN/ISSN
9789004250444
Copyright
Copyright © 2013, Brill
Publisher
Brill
Place of Publication
Leiden, Netherlands
Disciplines
Citation Information
Miriamne Ara Krummel. "‘Him Jesus, That Jew!’—Representing Jewishness in the York Plays" Jews in Medieval Christendom: Slay Them Not (2013) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/miriamne_krummel/12/
Citation information for the book in which this chapter appears: Utterback, Kristine T., and Merrall Llewelyn Price. 2013. Jews in medieval Christendom : slay them not. n.p.: Boston Leiden : Brill, 2013.
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