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The medieval postcolonial Jew, in and out of time /

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"The Medieval Postcolonial Jew, In and Out of Time studies violent temporal clashes that are written into the medieval vision of annus domini [the year of our Lord]. Christian temporality represents Jewish time as queerly oddly outmoded and advocating uncivil and socially disruptive behavior. J...

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Main Author: Krummel, Miriamne Ara (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2022.
Subjects:
Jews > History > 70-1789.
Jews > Europe > History.
Jewish calendar.
Church calendar.
Juifs > Histoire > 70-1789.
Juifs > Europe > Histoire.
Calendrier juif.
Calendrier liturgique.
HISTORY / Europe / Medieval.
RELIGION / Judaism / History.
Jews.
Europe.
70-1789
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Calculating Time: Eosturmonath, Nisan, and the Paschal Table
  • Just In Time: Sacrificial Gifts, Rotting Corpses, and Annus Domini
  • An (Un)Common Era: Passionate Narratives, Temporal Clashes-Jewish and Christian
  • Taking Jews out and Putting Them Back in: Christian Chronometry, the York Massacre, and a Cycle of Mystery Plays
  • A Time of Many Layers: Feasting on the Temporalities of The Siege of Jerusalem
  • Repressing a Perpetually Resurfacing Temporality: Four Authorial Orphans and The Fifteenth-Century 'Tale of the Litel Clergeon and the Jews'
  • Epilogue: The Empire of Common Time.