CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2012
| Author | Losonczi, Eszter |
|---|---|
| Title | The Visual Patterns of the Wandering Jew in the Late Middle Ages |
| Summary | This thesis speaks about visual representations of the Wandering Jew between the thirteenth and the sixteenth centuries, using pictorial instances from England, France, the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy. My aim is to see the possible textual and pictorial antecedents of the legend and evaluate the different visual types. Since the legend of the Wandering Jew can be considered the allegory of the fate of the Jews after the First Coming of Christ, and the Destruction of the Second Temple, first, I analyze the representation of the Jewish exile in Biblical and Talmudic writings. In the first chapter I also introduce characters from the Bible, Jewish legends, and non-Jewish sources which possess qualities similar to the figure of the Wandering Jew. Second, I present the main elements of the textual tradition of the legend in the same period, compare them with the visual examples, and try to establish connections among them. Third, I show the visual instances and categorize them. My aim is to demonstrate the existence of an independent pictorial tradition, which in some images, shows connections with pilgrim representations. I also suggest that some components (give a couple of examples) appeared in the sixteenth century in the visual representations, but only appeared in the textual tradition a century later. |
| Supervisor | Jaritz, Gerhard, Bela Zsolt Szakacs, Wilke, Carsten |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/losonczi_eszter.pdf |
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