Counter-Medievalism: Or, Protestants Rewrite the Middle Ages

Burstein, Miriam Elizabeth

doi:10.1057/9781403981165_9

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“…54 The most popular way of making this connection was by comparing Jewish devotion to the Talmud and rabbis to the Catholic emphasis upon tradition and the priesthood. 55 As Joseph Wolff lamented, 'as the Church of Judea began to neglect the commandments of God . .…”

Section: Catholic History Of Persecuting Jews Was Another Common Theme Rabbi Selig Inmentioning

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Seductive Splendour and Caricatured Simplicity

Crome

2021

Bulletin of the John Rylands Library

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This article examines English Evangelical novels focused on the conversion of Jewish characters, published from the 1820s to the 1850s. It concentrates particularly on the way these novels emphasised the importance of the Church of England in constructing national and religious identity, and used Jewish conversion as a way to critique Catholicism and Nonconformity. Jewish worship, rabbinic authority and Talmudic devotion were linked to Roman Catholic attitudes towards priesthood and tradition, while Jews were also portrayed as victims of a persecuting Roman Church. Nonconformity was criticised for disordered worship and confusing Jews with its attacks on respectable Anglicanism. As a national religion, novelists therefore imagined that Jews would be saved by a national church, and often linked this to concepts of a national restoration to Palestine. This article develops and complicates understandings of Evangelical views of Jews in the nineteenth century, and their links to ‘writing the nation’ in popular literature.

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Section: Catholic History Of Persecuting Jews Was Another Common Theme Rabbi Selig Inmentioning

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Seductive Splendour and Caricatured Simplicity

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2021

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“…72 Burstein rightly sees this element of the novel as intrinsic to Holt's religious agenda, in prefiguring 'the Saxon's eventual capitulation to Augustine's sway' and 'the British rejection of his claims.' 73 I think it is reasonable to read in it also a celebration, implicit if not explicit, of the resistance of native cultures to religious or cultural expansionism of alien forces. In Imogen the subalterns speak, and speak truth to power, fearlessly and articulately.…”

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Not of our race, nor yet wholly strangers: Race, religion and empire in some novels of early Christian Britain

Johnson

2016

Literature & History

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The small generic niche of nineteenth century historical novels set in early Christian Britain allows room for the expression of a variety of positions on such topics of popular concern as the racial origins and identity of the English, the form of Christianity proper to England, and the moral questions attending the status of England as an imperial power. Novels construct narratives which support views of the English as entirely Anglo-Saxon or as significantly Celtic in origin, visions of church history congruent with evangelical, broad church and Anglo-Catholic positions and attitudes to empire which range from openly jingoistic to ambivalent or critical.

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The Nanteos Cup: Folklore and Heritage from Country House to the Internet

Wood

2022

Folklore

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Counter-Medievalism: Or, Protestants Rewrite the Middle Ages

Cited by 3 publications

References 11 publications

Seductive Splendour and Caricatured Simplicity

Seductive Splendour and Caricatured Simplicity

Not of our race, nor yet wholly strangers: Race, religion and empire in some novels of early Christian Britain

The Nanteos Cup: Folklore and Heritage from Country House to the Internet

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