| Description |
472 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps ; 31 cm |
| ISBN |
1909400491 hardback |
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9781909400498 hardback |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-421) and index. |
| Contents |
Reading the Sachsenspiegel picture-books -- The Sachsenspiegel picture-books and the material culture of the law -- The textual and pictorial construction of social difference among Saxons -- Women and Wends in the mirror: protection and control -- Jews in a twilight zone: the vulnerability of the emperor's people -- Reflections of the Sachsenspiegel picture-books: 1685-2010. |
| Summary |
Contextual analysis of the representation of women and Jews in the fourteenth-century manuscripts of the German law book known as the Sachsenspiegel. A Germanist and an art historian examine the pictures and text in the four densely illustrated manuscripts of the Sachsenspiegel that were produced in the century following its composition by Eike von Repgow. This is the first extensive study of these famous picture books in English. Using critical frameworks based on performative and feminist theory, the authors give detailed consideration to the social differences reshaped and maintained by text and image. Although Eike's project, realized in the early 1220s, was concerned with peaceful interaction between diverse groups, including Slavic Wends as well as Germans, and with the provision of guardians for the young, the handicapped and the judicially impaired, his text is open to subversion by the images. Changing emphases in the pictures accord with changing attitudes to women and Jews in the period of production of these works, between c. 1300 and 1360. A burgeoning book culture in the fourteenth century carried Eike's law into the town halls at a time when the German cities were increasingly Christianized; market churches were constructed in the judicial and economic hub even as Synagogues disappeared from town centres during the pogroms. The market complex became part of the material culture of the law. |
| Library Class |
Bibliog B162:32
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| Subject |
Sachsenspiegel -- Illustrations.
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Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval -- Germany.
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Illumination of books and manuscripts, German.
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Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval -- Themes, motives.
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Women -- Germany -- History -- 14th century.
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Jews -- Germany -- History -- 14th century.
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Women in art -- 14th century.
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Jews in art -- 14th century.
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| Other Author |
Nelson, Charles G., 1925-2008, author.
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