Assaults on the faith: Imagining Jews and creating Christians in the late Middle Ages
[Thesis]
Brooke Falk
Weigert, Laura
Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick
2017
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-63442-6
Ph.D.
Graduate School - New Brunswick
Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick
2017
My dissertation examines manuscripts and early printed books of the "Fortress of Faith" (Fortalitium fidei) as influential works in late medieval constructions of Jewish and Christian identity. I argue that the "Fortress of Faith" moves beyond traditional polemics in its comprehensive use of popular argumentative approaches, particularly in its use of images, which appealed to a variety of late medieval audiences. I suggest a revised stemma, giving preference to the influence of woodcuts over miniatures. Through both types of images, Christians were armed with mental pictures of themselves as knights guarding a Christian fortress.
Religious history; Art history; Medieval history
Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Communication and the arts;Anti-Judaism;Art;Fortress;Incunabula;Jews;Manuscripts;Medieval;Other
Khan, Mohammad Tariqul Islam
Weigert, Laura
Graduate School - New Brunswick
Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick