medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
D.O. Hughes, "Distinguishing signs: ear-rings, Jews and Franciscan
rhetoric in the Italian Renaissance city," Past and Present no. 112 (1986):
ca. p. 22.
Also try:
Riess, Jonathan B.
The Renaissance Antichrist : Luca Signorelli's Orvieto
frescoes / Jonathan B. Riess.
Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1995.
Tom Izbicki
At 05:36 PM 5/3/2001 +0200, you wrote:
>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
>Anna Sapir Abulafia has written several articles dealing with how Jews
>were viewed in the Middle Ages. Either Miri Rubin (in Corpus Christi,
>CAambridge, 1991 and perhaps elsewhere)or Kathleen Biddick,in "Genders,
>Bodies, Borders: Technologies of the Visible,"Speculum LXVIII, pp.389-418.
>Reprinted in N. Partner, ed.Studying Medieval Women: Sex, Gender, Feminism.
>Cambridge,1993, discusses Paolo Uccello's Miracle of the Host. There is also
>an article dealing with cassone painting and Jewish patronage,
>i.e.,Haraszti-Takács, M. "Fifteenth-Century Painted Furniture with Scenes
>from the Esther Story," Jewish Art 15 (1989): 14-25. (I am skeptical about
>her conclusions.)
>Sorry to be so vague but I am away from my library.
>Best wishes,
>Marina Vidas
>--------------------
>
>Apologies for crosspostings to two lists, neither of which is a
>renassiance one, but I know there are plenty of you out there who stray
>into the fifteenth century and beyond.
>
>A student wants to do her MA dissertation on the way Jews are portrayed
>in Renaissance Art and has asked me for suggestions on what to read.
>I've come up with Ruth Mellinkoff, Sara Lipton. Dana Katz, an article by
>Diane Owen Hughes on Jews and Earrings, the location of which I can't
>remember, and a few other equally vague ideas on topics to search
>through (Judas, depictions of the Circumcision and Purfication,
>Renaissance Haggadahs and other MSS). Clearly, she needs more help than
>I can give her! Any suggestions?
>
>
>Laura
>
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