TY - BOOK ID - 85583016 TI - Past Imperfect. Medieval Antisemitism? PY - 2019 SN - 9781641890076 164189007X 9781641890083 9781641890090 1641899239 1641890096 1641890088 9781641899239 PB - Leeds DB - UniCat KW - Antisemitism KW - Anti-Jewish propaganda KW - Christianity and antisemitism KW - Antisemitism and Christianity KW - Christianity and other religions KW - Antisemitic propaganda KW - Propaganda KW - History KW - Judaism KW - 296.2 KW - 296*811 KW - 296*811 Antisemitisme--in oudheid en middeleeuwen KW - Antisemitisme--in oudheid en middeleeuwen KW - 296.2 Antisemitisme KW - Antisemitisme KW - Anti-Jewish attitudes KW - Anti-Semitism KW - Ethnic relations KW - Prejudices KW - Philosemitism KW - anachronism. KW - antisemitism. KW - history. KW - medieval. KW - race. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85583016 AB - In this work, François Soyer examines the nature of medieval anti-Jewish sentiment and violence. Analysing developments in Europe between 1100 and 1500, he points to the tensions in medieval anti-Jewish thought amongst thinkers who hoped to convert Jews and blamed Talmudic scholarship for their obduracy and yet who also, conversely, often essentialized Judaism to the point that it transformed into the functional equivalent of the modern concept of race. He argues that we should not consider antisemitism as a monolithic concept but accept the existence of independent, historical meanings and thus of antisemitisms (plural), including 'medieval antisemitism' as distinct from anti-Judaism. ER -