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Author Shatzmiller, Joseph, author.

Title Cultural exchange : Jews, Christians, and art in the medieval marketplace / Joseph Shatzmiller.

Publication Info. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 185 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world
Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents pt. 1. Pawnbrokers : agents of cultural transmission -- pt. 2. Human imagery in medieval Ashkenaz -- pt. 3. At the marketplace : professionals in the service of the "other."
Summary Demonstrating that similarities between Jewish and Christian art in the Middle Ages were more than coincidental, Cultural Exchange meticulously combines a wide range of sources to show how Jews and Christians exchanged artistic and material culture. Joseph Shatzmiller focuses on communities in northern Europe, Iberia, and other Mediterranean societies where Jews and Christians coexisted for centuries, and he synthesizes the most current research to describe the daily encounters that enabled both societies to appreciate common artistic values. Detailing the transmission of cult.
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Subject Jews -- Europe, Western -- Civilization.
Jews.
Western Europe.
Civilization.
Jews -- Europe, Western -- Social life and customs -- To 1500.
Manners and customs.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Christians -- Europe, Western -- Civilization.
Christians.
Christians -- Europe, Western -- Social life and customs -- To 1500.
Europe, Western -- Civilization -- To 1500.
Europe, Western -- Civilization -- Jewish influences.
Europe, Western -- Ethnic relations.
Ethnic relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Shatzmiller, Joseph, author. Cultural exchange. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2013] 9780691156996 (DLC) 2012046441 (OCoLC)819105310
ISBN 9781400846092 (electronic book)
1400846099 (electronic book)
9780691156996
0691156999