Staging the Blindfolded Bride: Between Medieval Drama and Piyyut Illumination in the Levy Maḥzor

Offenberg, Sara

doi:10.1484/m.svcma-eb.5.109338

Studies in the Visual Cultures of the Middle Ages

2015

DOI: 10.1484/m.svcma-eb.5.109338

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Staging the Blindfolded Bride: Between Medieval Drama and Piyyut Illumination in the Levy Maḥzor

Sara Offenberg¹

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“…the introduction for wider contexts; and (Lipton 1999). For thoughts on the Jewish perspective, see, e.g., (Epstein 1997(Epstein , 2011Shalev-Eyni 2010;Offenberg 2015Offenberg , 2020. 4 See also (Hammer 2011, pp.…”

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Wrathful Rites: Performing Shefokh ḥamatkha in the Hileq and Bileq Haggadah

Gertsman,

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2024

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This essay explores a remarkable manuscript, the so-called Hileq and Bileq Haggadah (Paris, BnF Ms. Hébreu 1333), illuminated in southern Germany in the fifteenth century. Our focus, in particular, is on the image that accompanies the Shefokh ḥamatkha prayer, an invocation of God’s vengeance upon nonbelievers. Here, we posit the role of the Shefokh ḥamatkha folio within the context of the Hileq and Bileq Haggadah, suggesting that its prominent position and extravagant visual program involve the reader–viewer in a performative scenario that inflects the meaning of the other images in the book as well as the enactment of the Seder ritual itself. The messianic import of the folio is underscored by its enactive language, both visual and oral, and predicated on the emotional communities that coalesced around the Passover ritual in the later Middle Ages.

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Wrathful Rites: Performing Shefokh ḥamatkha in the Hileq and Bileq Haggadah

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2024

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Staging the Blindfolded Bride: Between Medieval Drama and Piyyut Illumination in the Levy Maḥzor

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