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Revealing the Secrets of the Jews : Johannes Pfefferkorn and Christian Writings about Jewish Life and Literature in Early Modern Europe /
This book presents the most recent scholarship on the sixteenth-century convert Johannes Pfefferkorn and his context. Pfefferkorn is the most (in)famous of the converts from Judaism who wrote descriptions of Jewish ceremonial life and shaped both Christian ideas about Judaism and the course of anti-...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Illustrations ; Acknowledgements ; Contributors ; A Note on Spelling and Referencing ; Introduction ; 1 Jewish Life and Books under Scrutiny: Ethnography, Polemics, and Converts ; I Life and campaigns ; 2 Johannes Pfefferkorn and Imperial Politics.
- 3 In Search of the Historical Pfefferkorn: The Missionary to the Jews, 1507-1508 4 Johannes Pfefferkorn and the Dual Form of the Confiscation Campaign ; II Books and dissemination ; 5 Pfefferkorn's Books or the Most Rational Man in the World.
- 6 Synagoga Veritas? Johannes Pfefferkorn and his Synagogue Descriptions in the buchlijn der iuden beicht 7 Jew-Hatred Sells? Anti-Jewish Print Production in the German Dialects ; 8 "Thus shall Christian people know to punish them": Translating Pfefferkorn into Danish.
- III Converts, ethnography, and polemics 9 Patronage, Representation, and Conversion: Victor von Carben (1423-1515) and his Social Networks ; 10 Luther's Chief Witness: Anthonius Margaritha's Der gantz Jüdisch glaub(1530/1531).
- 11 The Reception History of Ethnographic Literature about the Jews 12 From Convert to Convert: Two Opposed Trends in Late Medieval and Early Modern Anti-Jewish Polemic ; 13 Revealing the Absurdity of Jewish Hopes: From Polemical Ethnography to Basnage's L'Histoire des Juifs.