Medieval Antisemitism? (Past Imperfect)

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. He argues that 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.

• | Author: François Soyer
• | Publisher: Arc Humanities Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 01, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 104 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 164189007X
• | ISBN-13: 9781641890076