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Author:

Kruger, Steven F.

Title:

The spectral Jew : conversion and embodiment in medieval Europe / Steven F. Kruger.

Publisher:

University of Minnesota Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

xxx, 320 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Judaism--Christianity.--Christianity.
Christianity and other religions--Judaism.
Judaism (Christian theology)--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Antisemitism--Europe--History--To 1500.
Conversion--History--History--To 1500.
Religious disputations--Europe--History--To 1500.
Body, Human--Social aspects--Europe.
Self-perception--History--Christianity--History--To 1500.
Joden.
Christenen.
Polemieken.
Jodendom.
Christendom.
Bekering.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-296) and index.

Contents:

The spectral Jew -- Body effects : individual and community identity in the long twelfth century -- Becoming Christian? : conversion and the stubborn body -- Merchants, converts, Jews : interreligious debate and the troubling of Christian identity -- Staying Jewish? : public disputation, conversion, and resistance.

Series:

Medieval cultures ; v. 40

ISBN:

9780816640621 (pb : alk. paper)
0816640629 (pb : alk. paper)
0816640610 (hbk. : alk paper)
9780816640614 (hbk. : alk paper)
9780816640614 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
0816640610 (hdbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)61295912
(OCoLC)62177998

LCCN:

2005023757

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)