Moral Imagination and the Boundaries of Belonging: Reading Ivan Marcus on Jews and Christian Europe.
The article reviews Ivan G. Marcus's book *How the West Became Antisemitic: Jews and the Formation of Europe, 800–1500*, which examines the development of antisemitism in medieval Christian Europe through the concept of "moral imagination." Marcus argues that Jews were not merely victims but active...
| Publicado en: | Religious Studies Review (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 139 - 149 |
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