This book provides a detailed analysis of Isidore of Seville's attitude towards Jews and Judaism. Starting out from his anti-Jewish work De fide catholica contra Iudaeos, the author puts Isidore's argument into the context of his entire literary production. Furthermore, he explores the place of Isidore's thinking within the contemporary situation of Visigothic Spain, investigating the political functionalization of religion, most particularly the forced baptisms ordered by King Sisebut, whose advisor Isidore was thought to have been. It becomes clear that Isidore's primary goal is to produce a new "Gothic" identity for the recently established Catholic "nation" of Visigothic Spain; to this end he uses anti-Jewish stereotypes inherited from the tradition of Catholic anti-Judaism.
Format: Hardback
CONTRIBUTORS: Wolfram Drews
EAN: 9789004149649
COUNTRY: Netherlands
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PUBLISHED BY: Brill
DATE PUBLISHED: 2006-02-28
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GENRE: HISTORY / Jewish, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval
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Relating to Jewish people and groups, History of ideas, Social groups: religious groups and communities
Wolfram Drews, Dr.phil. (2001) in Medieval History (Freie Universität, Berlin), holds the chair in medieval history at the University od Münster.. He has been a Research Fellow at Bonn University (Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum) and has published extensively on late antique and medieval Spanish history, as well as on the history of Judaism.
