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Saracens, Demons, and Jews : Making Monsters in Medieval Art by Debra Higgs Strickland (2003, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPrinceton University Press
ISBN-100691057192
ISBN-139780691057194
eBay Product ID (ePID)2327586
Product Key Features
Number of Pages336 Pages
Publication NameSaracens, Demons, and Jews : Making Monsters in Medieval Art
LanguageEnglish
SubjectMinority Studies, History / Medieval, Christianity / General, History / General
Publication Year2003
TypeTextbook
AuthorDebra Higgs Strickland
Subject AreaArt, Religion, Social Science
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height3.3 in
Item Weight53.1 Oz
Item Length10 in
Item Width8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2002-070406
ReviewsSaracens, Demons and Jewsis a rare book: impeccably researched, crisply penned, provocative in its findings and handsomely produced. It will provide any readers interested in the long history of how humans have denied humanity to their fellow beings much to ponder. -- Jeffrey Cohen, Patterns of Prejudice, Saracens, Demons and Jewsis a rare book: impeccably researched, crisply penned, provocative in its findings and handsomely produced. It will provide any readers interested in the long history of how humans have denied humanity to their fellow beings much to ponder., Strickland has mapped out a territory crucial for a responsible accounting of the ideological power of medieval art. Her work stands as both a reference work and a starting point for future investigation. -- Gerald B. Guest, CAA Reviews, "Strickland has mapped out a territory crucial for a responsible accounting of the ideological power of medieval art. Her work stands as both a reference work and a starting point for future investigation."-- Gerald B. Guest, CAA Reviews, Saracens, Demons and Jews is a rare book: impeccably researched, crisply penned, provocative in its findings and handsomely produced. It will provide any readers interested in the long history of how humans have denied humanity to their fellow beings much to ponder."-- Jeffrey Cohen, Patterns of Prejudice, Saracens, Demons and Jews is a rare book: impeccably researched, crisply penned, provocative in its findings and handsomely produced. It will provide any readers interested in the long history of how humans have denied humanity to their fellow beings much to ponder. -- Jeffrey Cohen, Patterns of Prejudice, Saracens, Demons and Jews is a rare book: impeccably researched, crisply penned, provocative in its findings and handsomely produced. It will provide any readers interested in the long history of how humans have denied humanity to their fellow beings much to ponder., Strickland has mapped out a territory crucial for a responsible accounting of the ideological power of medieval art. Her work stands as both a reference work and a starting point for future investigation.
Dewey Edition21
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal700/.45229/0902
Table Of ContentPreface 7 Plates 21 1: Making Men Known by Sight: Classical Theories, Monstrous Races, & Sin 29 2: Demons, Darkness, & Ethiopians 61 3: Christian s Imagine Jews 95 4: Saracens, Tartars, & Other Crusader Fantasies 157 5: Eschatological Conspiracies 211 6: Conclusions: What Is a Monster? 241 Notes 256 Acknowledgments 303 Bibliography 305 Index 327 Photography Credits 336
SynopsisDuring the crusades, Ethiopians, Jews, Muslims, and Mongols were branded enemies of the Christian majority. Illustrated with strikingly imaginative and still disturbing images, this book reveals the outrageously pejorative ways these rejected social groups were represented--often as monsters, demons, or freaks of nature. Such monstrous images of non-Christians were not rare displays but a routine aspect of medieval public and private life. These images, which reached a broad and socially varied audience across western Europe, appeared in virtually all artistic media, including illuminated manuscripts, stained glass, sculpture, metalwork, and tapestry. Debra Higgs Strickland introduces and decodes images of the "monstrous races," from demonlike Jews and man-eating Tartars to Saracens with dog heads or animal bodies. Strickland traces the origins of the negative pictorial code used to portray monsters, demons, and non-Christian peoples to pseudoscientific theories of astrology, climate, and physiognomy, some dating back to classical times. She also considers the code in light of contemporary Christian eschatological beliefs and concepts of monstrosity and rejection. This is the first study to situate representations of the enemies of medieval Christendom within the broader cultural context of literature, theology, and politics. It is also the first to explore the elements of that imagery as a code and to elucidate the artistic means by which boundaries were effectively blurred between imaginary monsters and rejected social groups.
LC Classification NumberN5950.S685 2003
