{"product_id":"christian-images-and-their-jewish-desecrators-the-history-of-an-allegation-400-1700-hardcover","title":"Christian Images and Their Jewish Desecrators: The History of an Allegation, 400-1700 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKatherine Aron-Beller\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eChristian Images and Their Jewish Desecrators, \u003c\/i\u003ehistorian Katherine Aron-Beller analyzes the common Christian charge that Jews habitually and compulsively violated Christian images, identifying this allegation as one that functioned alongside other anti-Jewish allegations such as ritual murder, blood libel, and host desecration to ultimately inform dangerous and long-lasting prejudices in medieval and early modern Europe. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough an analysis of folk tales, myths, legal proceedings, and religious art, Aron-Beller finds that narratives alleging that Jews committed violence against images of Christ, Mary, and the disciples flourished in Europe between the fifth and seventeenth centuries. She then explores how these narratives manifested differently across the continent and the centuries, finding that their potency reflected not Jewish actions per se, but Christians' own concerns about slipping into idolatry when viewing depictions of religious figures. In addition, Aron-Beller considers Jews' own attitudes toward Christian imagery and the ways in which they responded to and rejected--or embraced--such allegations. By examining how desecration allegations affected Jewish individuals and communities spanning Byzantium, medieval England, France, Germany, and early modern Spain and Italy, Aron-Beller demonstrates that this charge was a powerful expression of the Christian majority's anxiety around committing idolatry and their eagerness to participate in practices of veneration that revolved around visual images--an anxiety that evolved through the centuries and persists to this day.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKatherine Aron-Beller is a lecturer in Jewish History at the Rothberg International School of the Hebrew University and at Tel Aviv University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eJews on Trial: The Papal Inquisition in Modena 1598-1638\u003c\/i\u003e and the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Roman Inquisition: Centre versus Peripheries.\u003c\/i\u003e Since 2020 she has been a Visiting Scholar of the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 440\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.13 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 09, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51777657995552,"sku":"9781512824100","price":122.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/3f290f224ca814732bf431d44c34cd52.webp?v=1780500585","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/christian-images-and-their-jewish-desecrators-the-history-of-an-allegation-400-1700-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}