Walter POHL – Andre GINGRICH (Eds.)
medieval worlds • no. 7 • 2018
VERGING ON THE POLEMICAL: EXPLORING THE BOUNDARIES OF MEDIEVAL RELIGIOUS POLEMIC ACROSS GENRES AND RESEARCH CULTURES
Birgit Wiedl
S. 61 - 79
doi:
10.1553/medievalworlds_no7_2018s61
Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
doi:
10.1553/medievalworlds_no7_2018s61
Abstract:
Anti-Jewish polemics can be found in abundance in medieval theology, literature, and art; yet as for documents that stemmed from economic encounters, little research has been done so far. In late medieval Austrian economic source material, only a few hints at anti-Jewish stances can be found in business documents, most of which stem from either an ecclesiastical or a municipal environment. While these brief references to the Jews’ interest rates, to Jewish counterfeiting and Jewish duplicity might not be categorized as polemical per se, they introduce polemical stereotypes and arguments into scenarios of everyday Jewish-Christian interaction, and thus contribute to making anti-Jewish sentiment part of the Christian mind-set.
Jewish history; anti-Jewish polemics; Jewish-Christian interaction; economic history; business documents
Published Online:
2018/06/29 15:17:22
Document Date:
2018/06/29 15:17:00
Object Identifier:
0xc1aa5572 0x00390b23
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Verging on the Polemical: Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach to Medieval Religious Polemic
Sita Steckel
Escalations and/in the Different Contexts of Polemical Engagements
Anti-Jewish Polemics in Business Documents from Late Medieval Austria
Birgit Wiedl
Good and Bad Friars: Polemical Patterns and Strategies between Franciscans in the Early Fourteenth Century
Melanie Brunner
Obediencia, reformatio and veritas: Ecclesiological Debates during the Western Great Schism (1378-1417)
Bénédicte Sère
Polemics Investigated in a Late Fifteenth-Century Fastnachtspiel (Shrovetide Play)
Claudia Daiber
Embedding and Disembedding Polemical Texts
The Text as Heretic: Mixed Genres and Polemical Techniques in a Refutation of the Mirror of Simple Souls
Justine Trombley
Transfers of Anti-Waldensian Material from a Polemical Treatise to a Didactic Text
Reima Välimäki
Magistra magistrorum: Hildegard of Bingen as a Polemicist against False Teaching
Andra Alexiu
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