Illuminated Haggadot from Medieval Spain

Biblical Imagery and the Passover Holiday

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

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Beskrivning

Emerging in Spain after 1250, Jewish narrative figurative painting became a central feature in a group of illuminated Passover Haggadot in the early decades of the fourteenth century. Illuminated Haggadot from Medieval Spain describes how the Sephardic Haggadot reflect different visualizations of scripture under various conditions and aimed at a variety of audiences. Though the specifics of the creation of these works remain a mystery, this book delves into the cultural struggles that existed during this period in history and shows how those conflicts influenced the work.The culture surrounding the creators of the Sephardic Haggadot was saturated in conflict revolving around acculturation, polemics with Christianity, and struggles within Sephardic Jewry itself. Kogman-Appel presents the Sephardic Haggadot as visual manifestations of a minority struggling for cultural identity both in relation to the dominant culture and within its own realm.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2006-10-05
Mått:178 x 254 x 30 mm
Vikt:1 647 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:464
Förlag:Pennsylvania State University Press
ISBN:9780271027401

Utforska kategorier

Konsthistoria inom Kultur
Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Judendom inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Katrin Kogman-Appel is Lecturer in the Department of Arts at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva. Kogman-Appel's credentials include publishing Jewish Art Between Islam and Christianity: The Decoration of Hebrew Bibles in Spain (2001) as well as contributing to Imaging the Early Medieval Bible, edited by John Williams and published by Penn State Press in 1999.

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“Katrin Kogman-Appel of Ben-Gurion University, in her splendid new book examining the sources of five rare early 14th-century Haggadot from Aragon and Catalonia, revives the distinct possibility that the Jews were originally the pioneers of the images of the biblical narrative.”—Meir Ronnen Jerusalem Post

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroductionPart I: Acculturation and Borrowings from Christian Art1.The Manuscripts2.Motif Books and Images from Memory: Image Making in the Golden Haggadah and British Library, Or. 28843.The Rylands Haggadah and British Library, Or. 14044.The Sarajevo Haggadah and the Bologna-Modena Mahzor5.Other Methods of Image MakingConclusions to Part OnePart II: Meaning and Message6.Jewish Biblical Exegesis Employed in the Strategy of Image Making7.Designing the Messages of the Sephardic Picture Cycles: The Cultural Profile of the People InvolvedConclusions to Part TwoNotesBibliographyPhoto CreditsIndex