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