ISBN10: 9004102558, ISBN13: 9789004102552, [publisher: Brill, Leiden; New York; Köln] Hardcover 245x160 cm. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought, Volume LV. Erste Auflage, 420 p. Hardcover with dustjacket. USADO / GEBRAUCHT / USED. This book is the history of an imaginary people - the Red Jews - in vernacular sources from medieval and early modern Germany. From the twelfth to the seventeenth century, German-language texts repeated and embroidered on an antisemitic tale concerning an epochal threat to Christianity, the Red Jews. This term, which expresses a medieval conflation of three separate traditions (the biblical destroyers Gog and Magog, the 'unclean peoples' enclosed by Alexander, and the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel), is a hostile designation of wickedness. The Red Jews played a major role in late medieval popular exegesis and literature, and appeared in a hitherto-unnoticed series of sixteenth-century pamphlets, in which they functioned as the medieval 'spectacles' through which contemporaries viewed such events as Turkish advances in the Near and Middle East. The Red Jews disappear from the sources after 1600, and consequently never found their way into historical scholarship. Andrew Colin Gow, Ph.D. (1993) in History, University of Arizona, is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Alberta. In cooperation with Gordon Griffiths, he has published documents pertaining to Jewish money-lending in late medieval Florence. [Ant ...
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Brill Academic Pub, Date: 1995-01-01. Hardcover. Used:Good. 1995. Brill Academic Pub ISBN 9004102558 9789004102552 [US]