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HI203 European World Jews and Muslims Stephen Bates s.m.j.bates@warwick.ac.uk
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Aims of today Thinking about Jews and Muslims Who are they? What are they doing in Europe? How do they organise their societies How are they treated by European Christians
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The Fertile Crescent The Sacrifice of Isaac Caravaggio (1602) Canaan ● ● Ur Exiles EGYPT Jerusalem ● ● Sinai Moses Michelangelo (1515) BABYLONIA
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Israel’s Golden Age David Michelangelo (1504) The Judgement of Solomon Nicholas Poussin (1649)
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Exiles – the Babylonian Captivity Jerusalem ● ASSYRIA Nineveh ● BABYLONIA Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem Rembrandt van Rijn (1630) Samaria ●
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Exiles – the Diaspora Jerusalem ● Rome ● Siege of Jerusalem Jean Fouquet (Ms. De antiquitatibus Iudaeorum, c.1476)
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Judith beheading Holofernes Caravaggio (1598) Allori Cristofano (c.1620)
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Expulsion of the Jews 1290 – England 1394 – France 1492 – Spain 1497 – Portugal 1510 – Kingdom of Naples
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Persecution of Jews Matthew Paris (thirteenth century)
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Jewish Ghettos (Venice and Rome)
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Christ Carrying the Cross Hieronymous Bosch (1510)
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Martin Luther (c. 1520)
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Young Jew as Christ Rembrandt van Rijn (c.1656)
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Jews in the Synagogue Rembrandt van Rijn (1648)
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Islam Medina ● ● Mecca Jerusalem 638 ● Qur’an (1203) Cordoba 711 ● ● Constantinople HEJAZ Tripoli 647 ● Damascus 635 ● ● Baghdad ANATOLIA
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Islam ● Granada Constantinople ● ● Vienna ● Toledo ● Budapest Venice ● Mohács Lepanto
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Turkish horseman with Christian captives Erhard Schoen (1540)
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Arabic treatise on the eye (thirteenth-century)
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The Mufti and the Monster Jacopo Ligozzi (1580)
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Baptism of converts (Moriscos)
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Expulsion of the Moriscos
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Moriscos
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The Habits of the Grand Signor’s Court British Museum, Sloane 5258 (c.1620)
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Suleyman the Magnificent Melchior Lorck (1559)
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Conclusion Islam remain a threat throughout period By contrast, Jews are a scattered, powerless minority Jews rehabilitated into European society Antisemitism remains a feature of European culture Islam inspires combination of contempt and respect
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