Debra Kaplan
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804774420
- eISBN:
- 9780804779050
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804774420.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Jewish Studies
This book is a history of Jewish–Christian interactions in early modern Strasbourg, a city from which the Jews had been expelled and banned from residence in the late fourteenth century. It shows ...
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This book is a history of Jewish–Christian interactions in early modern Strasbourg, a city from which the Jews had been expelled and banned from residence in the late fourteenth century. It shows that the Jews who remained in the Alsatian countryside continued to maintain relationships with the city and its residents in the ensuing period. During most of the sixteenth century, Jews entered Strasbourg on a daily basis, where they participated in the city's markets, litigated in its courts, and shared their knowledge of Hebrew and Judaica with Protestant Reformers. By the end of the sixteenth century, Strasbourg became an increasingly orthodox Lutheran city, and city magistrates and religious leaders sought to curtail contact between Jews and Christians. The book unearths the active Jewish participation in early modern society, traces the impact of the Reformation on local Jews, discusses the meaning of tolerance, and describes the shifting boundaries that divided Jewish and Christian communities.Less
This book is a history of Jewish–Christian interactions in early modern Strasbourg, a city from which the Jews had been expelled and banned from residence in the late fourteenth century. It shows that the Jews who remained in the Alsatian countryside continued to maintain relationships with the city and its residents in the ensuing period. During most of the sixteenth century, Jews entered Strasbourg on a daily basis, where they participated in the city's markets, litigated in its courts, and shared their knowledge of Hebrew and Judaica with Protestant Reformers. By the end of the sixteenth century, Strasbourg became an increasingly orthodox Lutheran city, and city magistrates and religious leaders sought to curtail contact between Jews and Christians. The book unearths the active Jewish participation in early modern society, traces the impact of the Reformation on local Jews, discusses the meaning of tolerance, and describes the shifting boundaries that divided Jewish and Christian communities.
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804774420
- eISBN:
- 9780804779050
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804774420.003.0007
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Jewish Studies
The sight of Jews in the streets of Strasbourg was common during the first half of the sixteenth century, in part because of the contract that they had developed with the magistrates. In addition to ...
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The sight of Jews in the streets of Strasbourg was common during the first half of the sixteenth century, in part because of the contract that they had developed with the magistrates. In addition to interacting with Christians for economic reasons, local Jews also served as resources of Hebrew and Judaic knowledge to Strasbourg's elite, particularly theologians and professors. They also played a role in the rise of Christian Hebraism in the city during the Reformation. From the latter half of the sixteenth century, Christian leaders in Strasbourg deliberately solidified the boundaries between the communities as they shifted to Lutheran orthodoxy. This chapter examines the emergence of Christian Hebraism in Strasbourg during the early sixteenth century and the tradition of Hebraica Veritas prior to Reformation.Less
The sight of Jews in the streets of Strasbourg was common during the first half of the sixteenth century, in part because of the contract that they had developed with the magistrates. In addition to interacting with Christians for economic reasons, local Jews also served as resources of Hebrew and Judaic knowledge to Strasbourg's elite, particularly theologians and professors. They also played a role in the rise of Christian Hebraism in the city during the Reformation. From the latter half of the sixteenth century, Christian leaders in Strasbourg deliberately solidified the boundaries between the communities as they shifted to Lutheran orthodoxy. This chapter examines the emergence of Christian Hebraism in Strasbourg during the early sixteenth century and the tradition of Hebraica Veritas prior to Reformation.
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804762922
- eISBN:
- 9780804773546
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804762922.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter shows how Catholic polemicists defended a conservative conception of piety with books. It examines Gringore's Blazon des heretiques, the first vernacular poem printed in the sixteenth ...
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This chapter shows how Catholic polemicists defended a conservative conception of piety with books. It examines Gringore's Blazon des heretiques, the first vernacular poem printed in the sixteenth century against “Lutheran heresy,” to show how the poem represents the shift from “internal” spaces (the monastery and the heart) associated with traditional images of piety to external spaces, especially the social space where the “heretic” allegedly wields his unruly power. It argues that the Blazon both performs and justifies a new form of Catholic literature, the militant book whose goal is to reach those susceptible to “heresy.” Print both continues the tradition of preaching—“emblazoning” faith upon people's hearts—and multiplies “external” inscriptions that lead to the transformation of the social function of religion and of those communities partaking in it.Less
This chapter shows how Catholic polemicists defended a conservative conception of piety with books. It examines Gringore's Blazon des heretiques, the first vernacular poem printed in the sixteenth century against “Lutheran heresy,” to show how the poem represents the shift from “internal” spaces (the monastery and the heart) associated with traditional images of piety to external spaces, especially the social space where the “heretic” allegedly wields his unruly power. It argues that the Blazon both performs and justifies a new form of Catholic literature, the militant book whose goal is to reach those susceptible to “heresy.” Print both continues the tradition of preaching—“emblazoning” faith upon people's hearts—and multiplies “external” inscriptions that lead to the transformation of the social function of religion and of those communities partaking in it.
