1. |  | Title: Toward a definition of antisemitismAuthor: Langmuir, Gavin I Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Medieval History | JudaismPublisher's Description: Toward a Definition of Antisemitism offers new contributions by Gavin I. Langmuir to the history of antisemitism, together with some that have been published separately. The collection makes Langmuir's innovative work on the subject available to scholars in medieval and Jewish history and religious . . . [more]Similar Items |
2. |  | Title: Medieval stereotypes and modern antisemitismAuthor: Chazan, Robert Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Medieval Studies | Jewish Studies | Medieval History | European History | European StudiesPublisher's Description: The twelfth century in Europe, hailed by historians as a time of intellectual and spiritual vitality, had a dark side. As Robert Chazan points out, the marginalization of minorities emerged during the "twelfth-century renaissance" as part of a growing pattern of persecution, and among those stigmati . . . [more]Similar Items |
3. |  | Title: Living letters of the law: ideas of the Jew in medieval ChristianityAuthor: Cohen, Jeremy 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Religion | Medieval HistoryPublisher's Description: In Living Letters of the Law , Jeremy Cohen investigates the images of Jews and Judaism in the works of medieval Christian theologians from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas. He reveals how - and why - medieval Christianity fashioned a Jew on the basis of its reading of the Bible, and how this hermeneutic . . . [more]Similar Items |
4. |  | Title: Christian figural reading and the fashioning of identityAuthor: Dawson, David 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion | Christianity | Judaism | Classical ReligionsPublisher's Description: This book makes an illuminating contribution to one of Christianity's central problems: the understanding and interpretation of scripture, and more specifically, the relationship between the Old Testament and the New. John David Dawson analyzes the practice and theory of "figural" reading in the Chr . . . [more]Similar Items |
5. |  | Title: Images of intolerance: the representation of Jews and Judaism in the Bible moraliséeAuthor: Lipton, Sara 1962- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Medieval Studies | French Studies | Medieval History | Art History | JudaismPublisher's Description: Around the year 1225, an illuminated Bible was made for the king of France. That work and a companion volume, the two earliest surviving manuscripts of the Bible moralisée , are remarkable in a number of ways: they are massive in scope; they combine text and image to an unprecedented extent; and the . . . [more]Similar Items |
6. |  | Title: Jews, medicine, and medieval society Joseph ShatzmillerAuthor: Shatzmiller, Joseph Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Medieval History | European History | Medieval Studies | MedicinePublisher's Description: Jews were excluded from most professions in medieval, predominantly Christian Europe. Bigotry was widespread, yet Jews were accepted as doctors and surgeons, administering not only to other Jews but to Christians as well. Why did medieval Christians suspend their fear and suspicion of the Jews, allo . . . [more]Similar Items |
7. |  | Title: Nuns as artists: the visual culture of a medieval conventAuthor: Hamburger, Jeffrey F 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Art | Religion | Gender Studies | Art History | Medieval HistoryPublisher's Description: Jeffrey F. Hamburger's groundbreaking study of the art of female monasticism explores the place of images and image-making in the spirituality of medieval nuns during the later Middle Ages. Working from a previously unknown group of late-fifteenth-century devotional drawings made by a Benedictine nu . . . [more]Similar Items |
8. |  | Title: Daggers of faith: thirteenth-century Christian missionizing and Jewish response Author: Chazan, Robert Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: ReligionPublisher's Description: Our understanding of both Jewish history and the history of Western civilization is deepened by this finely balanced account of Christian missionizing among the Jews. Arguing that until the thirteenth century Western Christendom showed little serious commitment to converting the Jews, Robert Chazan . . . [more]Similar Items |
9. |  | Title: The life of JudaismAuthor: Goldberg, Harvey E Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion | Jewish Studies | JudaismPublisher's Description: Approximately thirteen million people around the world define themselves as Jews, with the majority residing in the United States and Israel. This collection portrays the diversity of Jewish experience as it is practiced and lived in contemporary societies. The book's attention to material culture o . . . [more]Similar Items |
10. |  | Title: Christianity and the rhetoric of empire: the development of Christian discourseAuthor: Cameron, Averil Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Classics | Classical Religions | Classical History | History | Christianity | Ancient History | RhetoricPublisher's Description: Many reasons can be given for the rise of Christianity in late antiquity and its flourishing in the medieval world. In asking how Christianity succeeded in becoming the dominant ideology in the unpromising circumstances of the Roman Empire, Averil Cameron turns to the development of Christian discou . . . [more]Similar Items |
11. |  | Title: The memory of the eyes: pilgrims to living saints in Christian late antiquityAuthor: Frank, Georgia 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Religion | Christianity | Classical Religions | Classical HistoryPublisher's Description: Pilgrims in the deserts of Egypt and the holy land during the fourth and fifth centuries A.D. often reported visiting holy people as part of their tours of holy places. This is the first comprehensive study of pilgrimage to these famous ascetics of late antique Christianity. Through an original anal . . . [more]Similar Items |
12. |  | Title: The master and Minerva: disputing women in French medieval culture Author: Solterer, Helen Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature | European Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Medieval Studies | Women's Studies | French StudiesPublisher's Description: Can words do damage? For medieval culture, the answer was unambiguously yes. And as Helen Solterer contends, in French medieval culture the representation of women exemplified the use of injurious language.Solterer investigates the debates over women between masters and their disciples. Across a bro . . . [more]Similar Items |
13. |  | Title: Christian souls and Chinese spirits: a Hakka community in Hong Kong Author: Constable, Nicole Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Christianity | ChinaPublisher's Description: How do the people of a village that is both Chinese and Christian reconcile the contradictions between their religious and ethnic identities? This ethnographic study explores the construction and changing meanings of ethnic identity in Hong Kong. Established at the turn of the century by Hakka Chris . . . [more]Similar Items |
14. |  | Title: Christian America?: what evangelicals really wantAuthor: Smith, Christian (Christian Stephen) 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Religion | American Studies | United States History | Sociology | AnthropologyPublisher's Description: In recent decades Protestant evangelicalism has become a conspicuous and--to many Americans, worrisome--part of this country's cultural and political landscape. But just how unified is the supposed constituency of the Christian Coalition? And who exactly are the people the Christian Right claims to . . . [more]Similar Items |
15. |  | Title: A radical Jew: Paul and the politics of identity Author: Boyarin, Daniel Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Religion | Judaism | Christianity | Gender Studies | Literature | AnthropologyPublisher's Description: Daniel Boyarin turns to the Epistles of Paul as the spiritual autobiography of a first-century Jewish cultural critic. What led Paul - in his dramatic conversion to Christianity - to such a radical critique of Jewish culture?Paul's famous formulation, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, no male and fem . . . [more]Similar Items |
16. |  | Title: Carnal Israel: reading sex in Talmudic cultureAuthor: Boyarin, Daniel Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Religion | Judaism | Gender Studies | Comparative Religions | Classical ReligionsPublisher's Description: Beginning with a startling endorsement of the patristic view of Judaism - that it was a "carnal" religion, in contrast to the spiritual vision of the Church - Daniel Boyarin argues that rabbinic Judaism was based on a set of assumptions about the human body that were profoundly different from those . . . [more]Similar Items |
17. |  | Title: The other economy: pastoral husbandry on a medieval estate Author: Biddick, Kathleen Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | European History | Medieval StudiesPublisher's Description: While the cereal agriculture of medieval Europe has been studied exhaustively, the pastoral resources and livestock husbandry of medieval estates have been seriously neglected. Kathleen Biddick's examination of one estate, Peterborough Abbey, during several decades before and after 1100 and the firs . . . [more]Similar Items |
18. |  | Title: Coronations: medieval and early modern monarchic ritual Author: Bak, János M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | Medieval HistoryPublisher's Description: Fascination with royal pomp and circumstance is as old as kingship itself. The authors of Coronations examine royal ceremonies from the ninth to the sixteenth century, and find the very essence of the monarchical state in its public presentation of itself. This book is an enlightened response to the . . . [more]Similar Items |
19. |  | Title: Tradition in a rootless world: women turn to Orthodox JudaismAuthor: Davidman, Lynn 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Religion | Judaism | Jewish Studies | Sociology | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: The past two decades in the United States have seen an immense liberalization and expansion of women's roles in society. Recently, however, some women have turned away from the myriad, complex choices presented by modern life and chosen instead a Jewish orthodox tradition that sets strict and rigid . . . [more]Similar Items |
20. |  | Title: Crusading peace: Christendom, the Muslim world, and Western political orderAuthor: Mastnak, Tomaž Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | Medieval History | Middle Eastern History | Christianity | Medieval Studies | Middle Eastern Studies | Social Science | Political TheoryPublisher's Description: Tomaz Mastnak's provocative analysis of the roots of peacemaking in the Western world elucidates struggles for peace that took place in the high and late Middle Ages. Mastnak traces the ways that eleventh-century peace movements, seeking to end violence among Christians, shaped not only power struct . . . [more]Similar Items |