The Jew, the Cathedral and the Medieval City: Synagoga and Ecclesia in the Thirteenth Century
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The Jew, the Cathedral and the Medieval City: Synagoga and Ecclesia in the Thirteenth Century

The Jew, the Cathedral and the Medieval City: Synagoga and Ecclesia in the Thirteenth Century

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Nina Rowe (Author)  

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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. 162 Halftones, unspecified
Nina Rowe is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Fordham University. The recipient of numerous fellowships and grants, she co-authored (with Sandra Hindman, Michael Camille and Rowan Watson) Manuscript Illumination in the Modern Age: Recovery and Reconstruction and co-edited (with David Areford) Excavating the Medieval Image: Manuscripts, Artists, Audiences - Essays in Honor of Sandra Hindman. She has published articles in the journals Gesta and Studies in Iconography, as well as in various edited volumes.
  • Contributor: Nina Rowe
  • Imprint: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN13: 9781107649989
  • Number of Pages: 340
  • Packaged Dimensions: 177x253x16mm
  • Packaged Weight: 830
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Release Date: 2014-06-23
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Nina Rowe is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Fordham University. The recipient of numerous fellowships and grants, she co-authored (with Sandra Hindman, Michael Camille and Rowan Watson) Manuscript Illumination in the Modern Age: Recovery and Reconstruction and co-edited (with David Areford) Excavating the Medieval Image: Manuscripts, Artists, Audiences - Essays in Honor of Sandra Hindman. She has published articles in the journals Gesta and Studies in Iconography, as well as in various edited volumes.

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