TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rowe, Nina
PY  - 2011
DA  - 2011//
TI  - Jew, the cathedral, and the medieval city: Synagoga and Ecclesia in the thirteenth century
ET  - 1. publ.
PB  - Cambridge Univ. Pr.
CY  - Cambridge [u.a.]
KW  - Ecclesia (Christian art)
KW  - Synagoga (Christian art)
KW  - Sculpture, Medieval
KW  - Themes, motives
KW  - Art and society
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Relations
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Christianity and other religions
AB  - "In the thirteenth century, sculptures of Synagoga and Ecclesia - paired female personifications of the Synagogue defeated and the Church triumphant - became a favored motif on cathedral façades in France and Germany. Throughout the centuries leading up to this era, 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 pre-history of the Church. In The Jew, the Cathedral and the Medieval City, 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"--
SN  - 9781107649989
LA  - English
N1  - Nina Rowe
ID  - 633916870
ER  -