EC2066  ANTISEMITISM, TOLERANCE AND JEWISH-CHRISTIAN RELATIONS IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN EUROPE (A.A. 2024/2025)

• Unità Accademica

  Centro Cardinal Bea per gli Studi Giudaici

• Corso

  Licenza in Studi Giudaici e Relazioni Ebraico-Cristiane , Diploma Annuale in Studi Giudaici e Relazioni Ebraico-Cristiane

Objectives: Students should learn to interpret primary historical sources about jewish-christian relations in the middle ages and early modern period and to assess competing theories in contemporary scholarship on the history of anti-jewish attitudes.

Learning Outcomes: Students will be familiar with the scope of jewish-christian interaction in the european middle ages, how that experience compares to interactions between muslims and jews in the middle ages, and how elements of medieval christian ideas about jews can be deployed in later manifestations of anti-jewish hatred. they will be prepared to question established beliefs about the antiquity and unchanging nature of what came to be understood as antisemitism. they will be prepared to consider the jews as a part of medieval and early modern european society.

Content: This course will survey the nature of interactions between jews and christians in the european middle ages and early modern period. we will study christian attitudes towards jews, social relaitonships between jews and christians, and the ways in which jews were an organic part of medieval and early modern society.

Methodology: The majority of the course will be based on discussions of primary sources and contemporary scholarship. There will be several mini-lectures to set the historical context and frame certain historiographical issues.

Means of Evaluation: There will be one short paper (3-5 pages) based on a close reading of a primary source, which can be revised after consulation with the professor, and one final take home exam/paper (7-10 pages) based on the readings in the course. the take home exam may consist of one sustained topic or several shorter essays

• Informazioni
• Docenti
• Orario lezioni/Aula
• Bibliografia

Informazioni

• Semestre: 2° Semestre
• ECTS: 3

Docenti

Jonathan Michael ELUKIN

Orario lezioni/Aula

Semestre	Giorno	Dalle	Alle	Aula	Piano	Palazzo	Note
2° Semestre	Martedì	15.00	15.45	TBD	0		Il corso si terrà nel periodo 2 aprile - 29 maggio 2025. Il calendario dettagliato verrà comunicato dal docente all’inizio del corso
2° Semestre	Martedì	16.00	16.45	TBD	0		Il corso si terrà nel periodo 2 aprile - 29 maggio 2025. Il calendario dettagliato verrà comunicato dal docente all’inizio del corso
2° Semestre	Giovedì	17.00	17.45	TBD	0		Il corso si terrà nel periodo 2 aprile - 29 maggio 2025. Il calendario dettagliato verrà comunicato dal docente all’inizio del corso
2° Semestre	Giovedì	18.00	18.45	TBD	0		Il corso si terrà nel periodo 2 aprile - 29 maggio 2025. Il calendario dettagliato verrà comunicato dal docente all’inizio del corso

Bibliografia

• S. LIPTON, Dark Mirror: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Jewish Iconography, New York (NY), Metropolitan Books, 2014; E. BAUMGARTEN, Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz: Men, Women and Everyday Religious Observance, Philadelphia (PA), University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016; EPHRAIM SHOHAM-STEINER, Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe, Detroit (MI), Wayne State University Press, 2020; I.J. YUVAL, Two Nations in Your Womb: Perceptions of Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Berkeley (CA), University of California Press, 2006; M.R. MENOCAL, Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain, Boston (MA), Back Bay Books, 2003.