Post on 23-Dec-2015
HI203
European World
Jews and Muslims
Stephen Batess.m.j.bates@warwick.ac.uk
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
The Fertile Crescent
The Sacrifice of Isaac
Caravaggio(1602)
Canaan ● ● Ur
Exiles
EGYPT
Jerusalem ●
● Sinai
Moses
Michelangelo(1515)
BABYLONIA
Israel’s Golden Age
David
Michelangelo(1504)
The Judgement of Solomon
Nicholas Poussin(1649)
Exiles – the Babylonian Captivity
Jerusalem ●
ASSYRIANineveh ●
BABYLONIA
Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem
Rembrandt van Rijn(1630)
Samaria ●
Exiles – the Diaspora
Jerusalem ●
Rome ●
Siege of Jerusalem
Jean Fouquet(Ms. De antiquitatibus Iudaeorum, c.1476)
Judith beheading Holofernes
Caravaggio
(1598)
Allori Cristofano
(c.1620)
Expulsion of the Jews
1290 – England
1394 – France
1492 – Spain
1497 – Portugal
1510 – Kingdom of Naples
Persecution of JewsMatthew Paris (thirteenth century)
Jewish Ghettos(Venice and Rome)
Christ Carrying the
Cross
Hieronymous Bosch
(1510)
Martin Luther
(c. 1520)
Young Jew as Christ
Rembrandt van Rijn
(c.1656)
Jews in the SynagogueRembrandt van Rijn (1648)
Islam
Medina ● ● Mecca
Jerusalem 638 ●
Qur’an(1203)
Cordoba 711 ●
● Constantinople
HEJAZTripoli 647 ●
Damascus 635 ● ● Baghdad
ANATOLIA
Islam
● Granada
Constantinople ●
● Vienna
● Toledo● Budapest
Venice ● Mohács
Lepanto
Turkish horseman with Christian
captives
Erhard Schoen
(1540)
Arabic treatise on the eye
(thirteenth-century)
The Mufti and the Monster
Jacopo Ligozzi
(1580)
Baptism of converts (Moriscos)
Expulsion of the Moriscos
Moriscos
The Habits of the Grand Signor’s Court
British Museum, Sloane 5258 (c.1620)
Suleyman the Magnificent
Melchior Lorck
(1559)
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