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Author
Gow, Andrew Colin
Title
The red Jews : antisemitism in an apocalyptic
age, 1200-1600 / by Andrew Colin Gow.
Publisher
Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1995.
Description
viii, 420 p. ; 25 cm.
Series
Studies in medieval and Reformation thought,
0585-6914 ; v. 55
Subjects
Antisemitism -- History.
Christianity and antisemitism
Judaism (Christian theology) -- History of
doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Judaism (Christian theology) -- History of
doctrines -- 16th century.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN
94043431
ISBN
9004102558
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
1. Inventio rerum et locorum: Finding a
Forgotten History -- 2. Apocalypticism and
Messianism: Christian and Jewish Perspectives
on the End in Late Antiquity and the Middle
Ages -- 3. Antisemitism and Apocalypticism in
the Middle Ages -- 4. The Red Jews in their
'Native Habitat' -- 5. The Medieval Antichrist
and his Jewish Henchmen -- 6. A Medieval
Legend in the Sixteenth Century: Pious and
Political Permutations -- 7. Approaches to the
End -- App. A: The Red Jews in Medieval and
Early Modern Sources -- App. B: The 'Unclean
Nations', Gog and Magog, and the Ten Tribes --
App. C: Antichrist and the Jews at the End of
Time -- App. D: Illustrations.
Tom Izbicki
At 01:52 PM 2/14/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
>Andrew Runni Anderson, _Alexander's Gate, Gog and Magog, and the Inclosed
>Nations_ (Cambridge, Mass.: The Mediaeval Academy of America, 1932;
>Monographs of the Mediaeval Academy of America, no. 5), has quotations from
>and/or references to well-known sources from the Latin West (e.g., Peter
>Comestor, Godfrey of Viterbo, Quilichino of Spoleto) that seem to show that
>it was generally thought part of God's plan that these nations would remain
>shut up until the Endtime. The exceptions, when they do occur, have to do
>with peoples whom Latin Westerners had actually encountered: identified as
>being among the enclosed nations, they were then provided with myths
>rationalising their "escape(s)". An interim separate providence for the
>others was apparently not on the cards, at least not in the standard
>historiographical tradition. It would be very interesting to hear of
>heterodox views of this matter from the 12th-to-14th-century Latin West.
>
>Best,
>John Dillon
>
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