Jews in the Early Modern English Imagination A Scattered Nation |
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Author:
| Holmberg, Eva Johanna |
Series title: | Transculturalisms, 1400-1700 Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-4094-8278-9 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2012 |
Publisher: | Ashgate Publishing Company
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $124.95 |
Book Description:
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Jews in the Early Modern English Imagination explores how for English travellers, the Jew of the imagination contrasted with the Jew they actually encountered in southern Europe, North Africa and the Levant. Based on travel writings, religious history and popular literature, this cultural historical study sheds new light not only on English representations of Jews during the period, but more generally on constructions of early modern religious and ethnic identities
Jews in the Early Modern English Imagination explores how for English travellers, the Jew of the imagination contrasted with the Jew they actually encountered in southern Europe, North Africa and the Levant. Based on travel writings, religious history and popular literature, this cultural historical study sheds new light not only on English representations of Jews during the period, but more generally on constructions of early modern religious and ethnic identities