TY  - BOOK
AU  - Adams, Jonathan
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022//
TI  - Jews in East Norse Literature: A Study of Othering in Medieval Denmark and Sweden
T3  - Religious Minorities in the North 4 History, Politics, and Culture
ET  - 2 Volumes
PB  - De Gruyter
CY  - Berlin
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Scandinavia
KW  - Christian literature
KW  - Denmark
KW  - Middle Ages
KW  - Sweden
KW  - antisemitism
KW  - vernacular literature
AB  - What did Danes and Swedes in the Middle Ages imagine and write about Jews and Judaism? This book draws on over 100 medieval Danish and Swedish manuscripts and incunabula as well as runic inscriptions and religious art (c. 1200–1515) to answer this question. There were no resident Jews in Scandinavia before the modern period, yet as this book shows ideas and fantasies about them appear to have been widespread and an integral part of life and culture in the medieval North. Volume 1 investigates the possibility of encounters between Scandinavians and Jews, the terminology used to write about Jews, Judaism, and Hebrew, and how Christian writers imagined the Jewish body. The (mis)use of Jews in different texts, especially miracle tales, exempla, sermons, and Passion treaties, is examined to show how writers employed the figure of the Jew to address doubts concerning doctrine and heresy, fears of violence and mass death, and questions of emotions and sexuality. Volume 2 contains diplomatic editions of 54 texts in Old Danish and Swedish together with translations into English that make these sources available to an international audience for the first time and demonstrate how the image of the Jew was created in medieval Scandinavia
SN  - 9783110775747
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110775747
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110775747/original
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110775747
DO  - 10.1515/9783110775747
LA  - English
N1  - Jonathan Adams
ID  - 1827845686
ER  -