Beautiful death : Jewish poetry and martyrdom in medieval France /
When Crusader armies on their way to the Holy Land attacked Jewish communities in the Rhine Valley, many Jews chose suicide over death at the hands of Christian mobs. With their defiant deaths, the medieval Jewish martyr was born. With the literary commemoration of the victims, Jewish martyrology fo...
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| 言語: | 英語 |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©2002.
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| シリーズ: | Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world.
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目次:
- Introduction: the medieval poetry of Jewish martyrdom
- Faith and fury: medieval Jewish martyrological poetry and resistence to conversion
- "The fire does not burn": the emergence of a martyrological motif
- Burning Jewish books
- Wheels within wheels: literature, history, and methodology
- Une bele qedushah: Troyes 1288
- Jonathan and his magic book: Paris 1290.