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050	0		_aDS135. _bE81 2013
100	1		_aShatzmiller, Joseph _eAuthor _9483
245	1	0	_aCultural exchange : _bJews, Christians, and art in the medieval marketplace/ _cJoseph Shatzmiller
260			_aPrinceton, New Jersey : _bPrinceton University Press, _c[2013] ©2013
300			_axii, 185 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm.
490			_a Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world.
520			_a"Demonstrating that similarities between Jewish and Christian art in the Middle Ages were more than coincidental, Cultural Exchange meticulously combines a wide range of sources to show how Jews and Christians exchanged artistic and material culture. Joseph Shatzmiller focuses on communities in northern Europe, Iberia, and other Mediterranean societies where Jews and Christians coexisted for centuries, and he synthesizes the most current research to describe the daily encounters that enabled both societies to appreciate common artistic values. Detailing the transmission of cultural sensibilities in the medieval money market and the world of Jewish money lenders, this book examines objects pawned by peasants and humble citizens, sacred relics exchanged by the clergy as security for loans, and aesthetic goods given up by the Christian well-to-do who required financial assistance. The work also explores frescoes and decorations likely painted by non-Jews in medieval and early modern Jewish homes located in Germanic lands, and the ways in which Jews hired Christian artists and craftsmen to decorate Hebrew prayer books and create liturgical objects. Conversely, Christians frequently hired Jewish craftsmen to produce liturgical objects used in Christian churches."--
650	0	0	_a Jews _xCivilization. _z Europe, Western _9484
650	0	0	_aJews _xSocial life and customs _yTo 1500. _zEurope, Western _9485
650	0	0	_aChristians _xCivilization. _zEurope, Western _9486
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