Richard of Devizes and Fictions of Judaism

Bale, Anthony

doi:10.1080/1462169x.2000.10512220

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“…4 Richard contrasts Winchester, which 'spared its worms (vermis),' to London and the other English cities which, in 3 See, for example, Bale (2000), Levine (1986) and Partner (1977). I have argued elsewhere that it might be fruitful to consider the Cronicon as an example of Menippean satire, while accepting that the tone is often satirical (Blurton, 2010).…”

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‘The history of an incorrect term’: Agamben, etymology and the medieval history of the holocaust

Blurton

2014

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In his discussion of the word 'holocaust' in Remnants of Auschwitz, Giorgio Agamben identifies the twelfth-century English historian Richard of Devizes as the first to connect the term 'holocaust' to the murder of Jews, concluding with an indictment of its use: 'it … contains a heredity that is from its inception anti-Semitic.' This essay will take as its starting point twelfth-century usage of the term 'holocaust,' alongside the two key Latin terms flagged up by Agamben -immolare ['to burn'] and sanguisuga ['bloodsucker']. Ultimately, the essay will suggest that, contrary to Agamben's understanding of this moment, Richard of Devizes was not intending to portray the death of Jews as a sacrifice pleasing to God, but rather that he was demonstrating an alert awareness of the extent to which Christian culture and Jewish culture are deeply imbricated. The essay concludes by considering the implications of its own methodology.postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies (2014) 5, 336-345.

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‘The history of an incorrect term’: Agamben, etymology and the medieval history of the holocaust

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2014

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“…105 Anthony P. Bale has seen this odd subversion not as a failure to plan the codex but instead as a visual impression of the way in which the Chronicle as a whole fails to fulfil 'its promise to excrete and expel Judaism' making 'the Jewish topos integral in its conception of Christian history and historiography'. 106 We might also use this curious textual layout to remember that medieval Christian time could be represented physically and materially, realized graphically and seen from above. This cartographic imagination found the shapes of time in the contiguous cultures of text and performance, in the imagery of voice and parchment and in the impression of its stretching, passing and remaining.…”

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