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Cultural exchange : Jews, Christians, and art in the medieval marketplace / Joseph Shatzmiller.

By: Series: Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern worldPublication details: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2013]Description: 1 online resource (xii, 185 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781400846092
  • 1400846099
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cultural exchange.DDC classification:
  • 381/.108992404 23
LOC classification:
  • DS135.E81
Online resources:
Contents:
pt. 1. Pawnbrokers : agents of cultural transmission -- pt. 2. Human imagery in medieval Ashkenaz -- pt. 3. At the marketplace : professionals in the service of the "other."
Summary: Demonstrating that similarities between Jewish and Christian art in the Middle Ages were more than coincidental, Cultural Exchange meticulously combines a wide range of sources to show how Jews and Christians exchanged artistic and material culture. Joseph Shatzmiller focuses on communities in northern Europe, Iberia, and other Mediterranean societies where Jews and Christians coexisted for centuries, and he synthesizes the most current research to describe the daily encounters that enabled both societies to appreciate common artistic values. Detailing the transmission of cult.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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pt. 1. Pawnbrokers : agents of cultural transmission -- pt. 2. Human imagery in medieval Ashkenaz -- pt. 3. At the marketplace : professionals in the service of the "other."

Demonstrating that similarities between Jewish and Christian art in the Middle Ages were more than coincidental, Cultural Exchange meticulously combines a wide range of sources to show how Jews and Christians exchanged artistic and material culture. Joseph Shatzmiller focuses on communities in northern Europe, Iberia, and other Mediterranean societies where Jews and Christians coexisted for centuries, and he synthesizes the most current research to describe the daily encounters that enabled both societies to appreciate common artistic values. Detailing the transmission of cult.

In English.

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