TY  - BOOK
AU  - Soyer, François
PY  - 2019
DA  - 2019//
TI  - Medieval antisemitism?
T3  - Past imperfect
PB  - ARC Humanities Press
CY  - [Leeds, England]
KW  - Antisemitism
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - Anti-Jewish propaganda
KW  - Christianity and antisemitism
AB  - "Is it possible to talk about antisemitism in the Middle Ages before the appearance of scientific concepts of "race"? In this work, François Soyer examines the nature of medieval anti-Jewish sentiment and violence. Analysing developments in Europe between 1100 and 1500, he points to the tensions in medieval anti-Jewish thought amongst thinkers who hoped to convert Jews and blamed Talmudic scholarship for their obduracy and yet who also, conversely, often essentialized Judaism to the point that it transformed into the functional equivalent of the modern concept of race. In a nuanced manner, he argues that, just as many historians now refer to "racisms" in the plural, we should not consider antisemitism as a monolithic concept but accept the existence of independent historical meanings and thus of antisemitisms (plural), including "medieval antisemitism" as distinct from anti-Judaism."--Back cover
SN  - 9781641890076
LA  - English
N1  - François Soyer
ID  - 1685087191
ER  -