Shoham-Steiner Ephraim On the Margins of a Minority: Leprosy, Madness, and Disability Among the Jews of Medieval Europe 9780814339312

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Автор: Shoham-Steiner Ephraim
Название: On the Margins of a Minority: Leprosy, Madness, and Disability Among the Jews of Medieval Europe
ISBN: 9780814339312
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

История Раннего и Высокого Средневековья: с 500 г. по 1450/1500 гг.

Потеря трудоспособности: социальные аспекты

Иудаика

ISBN-10: 081433931X
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 304
Вес: 0.62 кг.
Дата издания: 30.05.2014
Серия: Cultural/Regional Studies
Язык: English
Размер: 235 x 169 x 24
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Medieval history,Disability: social aspects,Jewish studies
Подзаголовок: Leprosy, madness, and disability among the jews of medieval europe
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: In medieval Europe, the much larger Christian population regarded Jews as their inferiors, but how did both Christians and Jews feel about those who were marginalised within the Ashkenazi Jewish community? In On the Margins of a Minority: Leprosy, Madness, and Disability among the Jews of Medieval Europe, author Ephraim Shoham-Steiner explores the life and plight of three of these groups. Shoham-Steiner draws on a wide variety of late-tenth- to fifteenth-century material from both internal (Jewish) as well as external (non-Jewish) sources to reconstruct social attitudes toward these “others,” including lepers, madmen and the physically impaired. Shoham-Steiner considers how the outsiders were treated by their respective communities, while also maintaining a delicate balance with the surrounding non-Jewish community.On the Margins of a Minority is structured in three pairs of chapters addressing each of these three marginal groups. The first pair deals with the moral attitude toward leprosy and its sufferers; the second with the manifestations of madness and its causes as seen by medieval men and women, and the effect these signs had on the treatment of the insane; the third with impaired and disabled individuals, including those with limited mobility, manual dysfunction, deafness and blindness. Shoham-Steiner also addresses questions of the religious meaning of impairment in light of religious conceptions of the ideal body. He concludes with a bibliography of sources and studies that informed the research, including useful midrashic, exegetical, homiletic, ethical and guidance literature and texts from responsa and halakhic rulings.Understanding and exploring attitudes toward groups and individuals considered “other” by mainstream society provides us with information about marginalised groups, as well as the inner social mechanisms at work in a larger society. On the Margins of a Minority will appeal to scholars of Jewish medieval history as well as readers interested in the growing field of disability studies.

On the Margins of a Minority: Leprosy, Madness, and Disability Among the Jews of Medieval Europe, Shoham-Steiner Ephraim