The Relation Text-Image with regards to the Representation of Jews in “Las Cantigas de Santa María” by Alfonso X
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https://doi.org/10.3989/aem.2007.v37.i1.38Keywords:
Anti-Judaism, Cantigas, Alfonso X, Códice Rico, IconographyAbstract
The treatment of the image of Jews in the Cantigas by Alfonso X fluctuates between their total condemnation and the perspective of salvation. The condemnation of Judaism embodies some classic topics of medieval anti-Semitism such as alliance with the devil, infanticide, ritual murder, or sacrilegious desecration. This negative vision is tempered in some cantigas in which their jewish protagonists embrace the Christian faith as a result of Virgin Mary's intervention.
This ambiguity may be a reflection of the monarch's attitude towards Judaism. On the one hand his reign is marked by prejudice both in certain proceedings and in the regulations of the Partidas, but on the other some Jews cooperate actively with the king's cultural and and scientific undertakings and even hold important public positions.
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