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Ungewöhnliche Perspektiven auf Juden in der deutschen und italienischen Literatur des Spätmittelalters: Feinde oder bloß nicht-christliche Nachbarn in der Mærendichtung?
Ist Teil von
Aschkenas, 2021-06, Vol.31 (1), p.1-28
Ort / Verlag
Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
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Abstract
We always face a certain danger when we investigate cultural-historical situations or conditions. Our chronicles and other documents tend to emphasize dramatic, if not tragic cases that color our understanding in rather dark light. This also applies to the relationship between Jews and Christians during the late Middle Ages, which has been discussed already from many different perspectives. Less consulted have been late German medieval verse narratives (verse-couplets, or
mæren
), where we encounter a number of times quite remarkable frameworks which situate the Jews in a much more mundane, ordinary context. As much as the poets endeavored, of course, to present the possibility of converting Jews to Christianity, as much they thereby also reveal a variety of different relationships characterized by a surprising degree of normalcy, free from the usual anti-Judaic hostility. We gain additional support for our approach by way of including two prose novellas by Boccaccio in his
Decameron
(ca. 1350).