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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aSchmitt, Jean-Claude
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Conversion of Herman the Jew :
_bAutobiography, History, and Fiction in the Twelfth Century /
_cJean-Claude Schmitt.
264 1 _aPhiladelphia :
_bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,
_c[2013]
264 4 _c©2010
300 _a1 online resource (320 p.) :
_b9 illus.
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338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aThe Middle Ages Series
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIntroduction --
_tChapter 1. Fiction and Truth --
_tChapter 2. Medieval Autobiography --
_tChapter 3. The Dream and Its Interpretation --
_tChapter 4. Conversion to Images --
_tChapter 5. Baptism and Name --
_tChapter 6. ''A New Era of Conversion'' --
_tConclusion --
_tExtract from the Vita of Godfried, Count of Cappenburg (c. 1150-1155) --
_tHerman the Former Jew: Short Work on the Subject of His Conversion --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex --
_tAcknowledgments
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aSometime toward the middle of the twelfth century, it is supposed, an otherwise obscure figure, born a Jew in Cologne and later ordained as a priest in Cappenberg in Westphalia, wrote a Latin account of his conversion to Christianity. Known as the Opusculum, this book purportedly by "Herman, the former Jew" may well be the first autobiography to be written in the West after the Confessions of Saint Augustine. It may also be something else entirely.In The Conversion of Herman the Jew the eminent French historian Jean-Claude Schmitt examines this singular text and the ways in which it has divided its readers. Where some have seen it as an authentic conversion narrative, others have asked whether it is not a complete fabrication forged by Christian clerics. For Schmitt the question is poorly posed. The work is at once true and fictional, and the search for its lone author-whether converted Jew or not-fruitless. Herman may well have existed and contributed to the writing of his life, but the Opusculum is a collective work, perhaps framed to meet a specific institutional agenda.With agility and erudition, Schmitt examines the text to explore its meaning within the society and culture of its period and its participation in both a Christian and Jewish imaginary. What can it tell us about autobiography and subjectivity, about the function of dreams and the legitimacy of religious images, about individual and collective conversion, and about names and identities? In The Conversion of Herman the Jew Schmitt masterfully seizes upon the debates surrounding the Opusculum (the text of which is newly translated for this volume) to ponder more fundamentally the ways in which historians think and write.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022)
650 4 _aLiterature.
650 7 _aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical.
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653 _aCultural Studies.
653 _aHistory.
653 _aJewish Studies.
653 _aLiterature.
653 _aMedieval and Renaissance Studies.
653 _aReligion.
700 1 _aNovikoff, Alex J.
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.9783/9780812208757
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812208757
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