Cordelia Hess

The Absent Jews

Kurt Forstreuter and the Historiography of Medieval Prussia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Combines medieval and modern historiography. First comprehensive work about Jewish life in medieval Prussia. Unique method for criticism of ideology combining biographic and semantic approach.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 636g
• ISBN-13: 9781785334924
• ISBN-10: 1785334921
• Artikelnr.: 46605779

Autorenporträt

Cordelia Hess is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Gothenburg and a Research Fellow at the Royal Academy of Literature, History and Antiquities, Stockholm. Her publications include Social Imagery in Middle Low German: Didactical Literature and Metaphorical Representation (2013) and, as co-editor, Fear and Loathing in the North: Jews and Muslims in Medieval Scandinavia and the Baltic Region (2015, with Jonathan Adams).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Absent Jews: The Rise of a Truism and the Loss of Some
Forefathers
Chapter 2. On the Frontier
Chapter 3. Archives at War
Chapter 4. A Ban on Jewish Settlement?
Chapter 5. Absent from Akko to the Baltic
Chapter 6. Absent Victims, Absent Violence: Persecutions and Blood Libel
Chapter 7. Beyond the Bulwark: Traces of Jewish Life in Medieval Prussia
Conclusion: The Wreckage of History
Bibliography
Index