July 2009
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April 2009
2 posts
“L’image romane entretient un rapport particulièrement étroit avec les...”
– Jean WIRTH, L’image à l’époque romane, Cerf, Paris, 2008, p. 9.
March 2009
12 posts
Book : Alienated Minority
The Jews of Medieval Latin Europe
Kenneth R. Stow
Harvard, 1992
In the 13th century, the Medieval Kingdom is seen through the metaphor of the body. “Membership in such a body was obviously limited”. Those who would deform or corrupt it were not welcome.” (p; 283).
Book : The Jew in the Medieval World
A source Book : 315-1791
Jacob Rader Marcus
Hebrew Union College Press (1938) 1999.
Documents and historical narratives translated and reproduced as written
Details of Roman law, status in Islam, Visigoth Code. Medieval laws and facts etc..
Book : Studien zur Geschichte der Juden im...
Gerd MENTGEN
Forschungen zur Geschichte der Juden
Verlag Hahnsche Hannover
Synagoga is attested in Middle Age in Strasbourg both as an architecure than a teaching.
- in 1292, the Domkapitel sells a house at the border of the synagoga Judeorum (p. 128)
- the community’s court, the Kahal, is described in documents as “universitas Judeorum Argentinensium” or “Universitas...
Book: IN AND OUT OF THE GHETTO, Jewish Gentile...
R. Po-chia Hsia, Harmut Lehmann, Cambridge University Press, 1995, 2002.See review : http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=1031
Book : The "1007 anonymous" and papal sovereignty...
Kenneth R. Stow
Cincinatti, 1984
Hebrew Union College Annual Supplements; Vol. 4; 8vo; [9], 89 pages; 5 facsimile plates, bibliography, index.
Describes Jewish attitudes toward the popes, not the contrary.
Lay piety was independant from ecclesiastical controls.
Popes abandonned their ideal and made their peace with political realism.
Link : Legislation Affecting the Jews from 300 to... →
Legislation Affecting the Jews from 300 to 800 CE
LAWS OF THE UNDIVIDED EMPIRE
LAWS OF THE WESTERN PROVINCES OF THE EMPIRE
LAWS OF THE EASTERN PROVINCES OF THE EMPIRE UP TO THE PUBLICATION OF THE THEODOSIAN CODE
COUNCILS OF THE EMPIRE UP TO THE TIME OF THE PUBLICATION OF THE THEODOSIAN CODE
BARBARIAN RECENSIONS OF THE THEODOSIAN CODE
COUNCILS OF THE VISIGOTHS
LEGISLATION OF THE WESTERN...
Article : Entstehung des Bildmotivs “Ecclesia und... →
Site Christlich-jüdische Zusammenarbeit (Austria). Raddatz, Alfred Christliche Kunst - auch ein Spiegel des Verhältnisses von Christen und Juden Entstehung des Bildmotivs im Mittelalter
Das Bildmotiv “Ecclesia und Synagoga“, das den Gegensatz zwischen Kirche und Judentum zum Ausdruck bringen soll, entsteht in der Mitte des 9. Jahrhunderts in Westfrankenreich - “detestanda Judaeorum perfidia“1, um...
Article : Negative images of Judaism in Christian... →
Jewish-christian relations site.
Images from religious buildings of Strasbourg, Erfurt, Werben, Prestbury, Rome.
“Was auch als Wahrheit oder Fabel in tausend Büchern dir erscheint, das alles ist...”
– Wolfgang, Seiferth, Synagoge und Kirche im Mittelalter. p. 211
Book : Synagoge und Kirche im Mittelalter
von Wolfgang SEIFERTH
Kösel Verlag München, 1964
Language : German. 246 pages, illustrations.
A very good book with precise references and chronology. Structured thought.
Book : Jean Gimpel, les bâtisseurs de cathédrales.
Seuil, 1958.
A good explanation about the free masons.
There were three sort of stone workers in the Middle Age :
- the hard hewers (carving petra dura, extremely hard stone)
- the rough masons (carving roughly the stone).
- the freestone masons (carving figures in chalky limestone)
The freestone masons were furtherly named “freemasons” (contraction of the 2 words).
A new excellent book...
Die Juden in der Kunst Europas (Ein Bildatlas), von Heinz Schreckenberg. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Herder, 1996.
This is a big book (more than 400 pages) with a lot of illustrations, especially a serie about Ecclesia against Synagoga. Sculptures of many cathedrals and engravings.
February 2009
11 posts
Why is it strange?
The iconographic theme of Ecclesia and Synagoga looks strange at our eyes because :
- a dramatic subject is expressed with a sweet rendering.
- for us, novadays, church and synagogue are mainly buildings, not persons.
- In medieval times, churches, as buildings, took an increasing and huge place.
- there is no trace of a specific jewish architecture of medieval synagogues in Western...
Article : Eglise personnifiée (ecclesia +... →
Article avec illustrations.
Article : Synagoga und Ekklesia - Bamberg →
Werner Kaltefleiter (ZDF)
Book : The Jews in Christian Art: An Illustrated... →
Atlas. Original German title : Die Juden in der Kunst Europas. Ein Bildatlas, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1996.
Article : Antijudaistische Motive in chr. Kunst →
Franz Böhmisch Exegetische Wurzeln antijudaistischer Motive in der christlichen Kunst
Article : Synagoga et Ecclesia →
Franz Böhmisch Exegese einer Beziehung in Wort und Bild Studien zur Ikonographie von “Ecclesia und Synagoga”.
Article : Selestat and Rudolf von Schlettsatdt
As you can see in Wikipedia, Rudolf von Schlettsatdt is NOT YET in the list of the famous persons of the town.
Perhaps I’ll add him and write an article about him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9lestat
New book today
I got a new book today, posted from Austria. The title is : Historiae Memorabiles.
It’s from Rudolf von Schlettstadt (Sélestat, see photo).
This is a book written in the XIIIth (thirteens) century by a Dominican friar. He tells 56 incredible stories. The book is in Latine, the accompanying text is in German. Book : HISTORIAE MEMORABILIS, Rudolf von Schlettstadt, herausgegeben von Erich...
Book : HISTORIAE MEMORABILIS : Why I bought this...
The reasons why I selected this book are :
- the reference was given by Miri Rubin in an article “Imagining the Jew”, p. 190, in this book : IN AND OUT OF THE GHETTO, Jewish Gentile relation in late medieval and early modern Germany, R. Po-chia Hsia, Harmut Lehmann, Cambridge University Press, 1995, 2002.
See review : http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=1031
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Cathedral Project
You’ll find here some notes and texts about my current project : a study of the cathedral of Strasbourg.