The medieval Haggadah
Subtitle: art, narrative, and religious imagination
By: Marc Michael Epstein
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780300156669
Subjects: Illustrations; Jewish illumination of books and manuscripts; Haggadah; Medieval Illumination of books and manuscripts
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A note on the manuscripts; title: introduction. Jewish visual culture as memory's mirror; title: The Birds' Haggadah; title: Birds' Head revisited; title: Socioreligious stratification; title: Narrative sequence; title: Eucharistic polemics; title: Metahistorical connections; title: Eschatological hopes; title: The Golden Haggadah; title: Silence is golden; title: Women hidden in plain sight; title: The Rylands and "Brother" Haggadot; title: Siblings : identical or fraternal?; title: Iconography in dialogue; title: Conclusions.