TY - CHAP
T1 - Jewish Chivalry in Late Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts
AU - Offenberg, Sara
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - This chapter deals with the way that the chivalric urban space is manifested in Hebrew illuminated manuscripts of different genres of literary works from the fourteenth- to late fifteenth-century German lands and Italy. I explore the meanings of coats of arms, knights, and other features of warfare borrowed from Christian society, touching on the dissonance between art and reality. Going into detail regarding the chivalric displays allows us to broaden our understanding of the role these images played vis-à-vis the Jewish patrons who commissioned them and of the purpose for which they were ordered. I begin with the realia of Jews bearing arms and Jewish presence in fight books from Germany and then turn to the imagined identities, focusing on three case studies from Hebrew illuminated manuscripts.
AB - This chapter deals with the way that the chivalric urban space is manifested in Hebrew illuminated manuscripts of different genres of literary works from the fourteenth- to late fifteenth-century German lands and Italy. I explore the meanings of coats of arms, knights, and other features of warfare borrowed from Christian society, touching on the dissonance between art and reality. Going into detail regarding the chivalric displays allows us to broaden our understanding of the role these images played vis-à-vis the Jewish patrons who commissioned them and of the purpose for which they were ordered. I begin with the realia of Jews bearing arms and Jewish presence in fight books from Germany and then turn to the imagined identities, focusing on three case studies from Hebrew illuminated manuscripts.
U2 - 10.1484/M.MISCS-EB.5.133340
DO - 10.1484/M.MISCS-EB.5.133340
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9782503583945
T3 - Medieval Identities: Socio-Cultural Spaces
SP - 153
EP - 173
BT - Perception and Awareness
A2 - Kogman-Appel, Katrin
A2 - Baumgarten, Elisheva
A2 - Hollender, Elisabeth
A2 - Shoham-Steiner, Ephraim
PB - Brepols
ER -