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The Jew, the Cathedral and the Medieval City

Synagoga and Ecclesia in the Thirteenth Century

by Nina Rowe

  • Hardback
  • 346 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 18.1 x 25.4 x 2.6 cm

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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 facades 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.
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  • Author

    Nina Rowe

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    April 2011

  • Weight

    818g

  • Page Count

    346

  • Dimensions

    18.1 x 25.4 x 2.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521197441

  • ISBN-10

    0521197449

  • Eden Code

    4574826

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