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Asa Simon Mittman, "In Those Days: Giants And The Giant Moses In The Old English Illustrated Hexateuch," Imagining the Jew: Jewishness in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture, ed. Samantha Zacher (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016)
- Author(s):
- Asa Simon Mittman (see profile)
- Date:
- 2016
- Group(s):
- Medieval Art, Medieval Studies, Monsters and Monstrosity
- Subject(s):
- Anglo-Saxons--Study and teaching, English literature, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Art, Medieval, Giants
- Item Type:
- Book chapter
- Tag(s):
- Anglo-Saxon studies, Medieval English literature, Medieval manuscripts, Medieval art
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/25c6-ez05
- Abstract:
- The eleventh-century Old English Illustrated Hexateuch, probably produced in the second quarter of the eleventh century, in or near St. Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury, houses a wealth of imagery, including several images of giants that appear throughout the manuscript’s approximately 400 images and 156 folios. These giants form a primary point of contrast for both the Jewish protagonists within the narrative and for Anglo-Saxon readers/viewers, helping the latter in their process of identity formation. Images of Moses, the great Jewish prophet, as not only horned but also gigantic complicate what might otherwise have been a simplistic dichotomy of “us” and “them,” thereby creating a more fertile basis for contemplative viewing.
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- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
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- Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives
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