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The Jew, the Cathedral and the Medieval City - Synagoga and Ecclesia in the Thirteenth Century (Paperback)
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The Jew, the Cathedral and the Medieval City - Synagoga and Ecclesia in the Thirteenth Century (Paperback)
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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 favored motif on cathedral facades 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."
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