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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 façades 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.

Sculpture, Medieval --- Art and society --- Judaism --- Christianity and other religions --- Sculpture médiévale --- Art et société --- Judaïsme --- Christianisme --- Themes, motives. --- History --- Relations --- Christianity --- Thèmes, motifs --- Histoire --- Ecclesia (Christian art) --- Synagoga (Christian art) --- Syncretism (Christianity) --- Religions --- Jews --- Semites --- Art --- Art and sociology --- Society and art --- Sociology and art --- Synagoga (Symbolic character) --- Synagogue (Symbolic character) --- Christian art and symbolism --- Church (Symbolic character) --- Ecclesia (Symbolic character) --- Religion --- Social aspects --- Arts and Humanities --- History.

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Late Medieval --- illuminated manuscripts

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Medieval images, especially manuscript illuminations, have long been treated independently of the contexts in which they were created. These beautiful miniature paintings, frequently valued as keepers of documentary evidence or as curious artistic commodities, have only recently become the focus of art historians concerned with new questions related to medieval working methods, audience and the status of the visual in the Middle Ages and the modern era. 'Excavating the Medieval Image' argues that the illuminated image is best understood as thoroughly integrated in the material context of the manuscript - and thus, integrated in a cultural context of production and reception. Seen in this way, the manuscript and its images become a kind of archaeological site, which must be carefully unearthed layer by layer. The fourteen essays gathered here are written by scholars of both medieval and Renaissance art history, and demonstrate varied methodological approaches that combine the pursuits of traditional connoisseurship and iconography with those of critical theory and historiography. In addition, the authors contribute more broadly to important interdisciplinary issues such as the study of gender, text and image, and the history of literacy and the book.

Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- Painting --- Iconography --- anno 500-1499 --- Art, Medieval. --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval. --- Women art patrons --- Women artists --- Art, Renaissance. --- Art médiéval --- Enluminure médiévale --- Femmes mécènes --- Femmes artistes --- Art de la Renaissance --- History --- Histoire --- Art, Medieval --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval --- Art, Renaissance --- 09 <082 HINDMAN, SANDRA> --- 091.31:7.04 --- Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Feestbundels. Festschriften--HINDMAN, SANDRA --- Verluchte handschriften: iconografie --- Festschrift - Libri Amicorum --- 091.31:7.04 Verluchte handschriften: iconografie --- 09 <082 HINDMAN, SANDRA> Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Feestbundels. Festschriften--HINDMAN, SANDRA --- Art médiéval --- Enluminure médiévale --- Femmes mécènes --- Art patrons --- Women benefactors --- Artists, Women --- Women as artists --- Artists --- Painting, Medieval --- Renaissance art --- Medieval art --- Women art patrons - Europe - History - To 1500 --- Women artists - Europe - History - To 1500

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Whose Middle Ages? is an interdisciplinary collection of short, accessible essays intended for the nonspecialist reader and ideal for teaching at an undergraduate level. Each of twenty-two essays takes up an area where digging for meaning in the medieval past has brought something distorted back into the present: in our popular entertainment; in our news, our politics, and our propaganda; and in subtler ways that inform how we think about our histories, our countries, and ourselves. Each author looks to a history that has refused to remain past and uses the tools of the academy to read and re-read familiar stories, objects, symbols, and myths.Whose Middle Ages? gives nonspecialists access to the richness of our historical knowledge while debunking damaging misconceptions about the medieval past. Myths about the medieval period are especially beloved among the globally resurgent far right, from crusading emblems on the shields borne by alt-right demonstrators to the on-screen image of a purely white European populace defended from actors of color by Internet trolls. This collection attacks these myths directly by insisting that readers encounter the relics of the Middle Ages on their own terms.Each essay uses its author’s academic research as a point of entry and takes care to explain how the author knows what she or he knows and what kinds of tools, bodies of evidence, and theoretical lenses allow scholars to write with certainty about elements of the past to a level of detail that might seem unattainable. By demystifying the methods of scholarly inquiry, Whose Middle Ages? serves as an antidote not only to the far right’s errors of fact and interpretation but also to its assault on scholarship and expertise as valid means for the acquisition of knowledge.

Civilization, Medieval. --- Civilization, Medieval --- Middle Ages. --- Influence. --- Europe. --- alt-right. --- crusades. --- globalism. --- medievalism. --- middle ages. --- nation-state. --- race. --- white supremacy.