CONGRESS CANCELED Medievalism and Anti-Semitism
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Medievalism and Anti-Semitism
The news agency Reuters reported in early 2019 that anti-Semitic attacks worldwide rose 13 percent in 2018 from the previous year, with the highest number of incidents reported in major Western democracies including the United States, France, Britain and Germany. Sadly, these countries are also among the ones in which medievalist, nationalist, and racist traditions and continuities with medieval culture play an important role for the various ways in which these nations and their citizens define their identity and rootedness in the past. This paper session brings to bear scholarly expertise on different examples medievalist antisemitisms. In addition to reception histories demonstrating the imbrication of medievalia with political, racial, and religious themes, symbols, and events, this session provides a critical view on how the new media has played an important role in disseminating anti-Semitic ideas and building a global network of hate that feels anchored and supported by medieval anti-Jewish narratives, rites, and traditions.
Richard Utz
CONGRESS CANCELED Medievalism and Anti-Semitism
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Medievalism and Anti-Semitism
The news agency Reuters reported in early 2019 that anti-Semitic attacks worldwide rose 13 percent in 2018 from the previous year, with the highest number of incidents reported in major Western democracies including the United States, France, Britain and Germany. Sadly, these countries are also among the ones in which medievalist, nationalist, and racist traditions and continuities with medieval culture play an important role for the various ways in which these nations and their citizens define their identity and rootedness in the past. This paper session brings to bear scholarly expertise on different examples medievalist antisemitisms. In addition to reception histories demonstrating the imbrication of medievalia with political, racial, and religious themes, symbols, and events, this session provides a critical view on how the new media has played an important role in disseminating anti-Semitic ideas and building a global network of hate that feels anchored and supported by medieval anti-Jewish narratives, rites, and traditions.
Richard Utz