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Nothaft, C. Philipp E., "The meaning of «Judaeus» and the myth of Jewish male menses in a Late medieval astronomical school text", European Journal of Jewish Studies, 7/1 (2013), 73-91.

Resum

The article introduces and explores a new source on Christian hostility towards Jews during the late Middle Ages. It comes in the shape of a commentary on a Computus Judaicus, which was used as a quadrivial school text in Central and Eastern Europe during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Based on an examination of the rich manuscript tradition, it will be demonstrated how the text contributed to the evolution of the trope of Jewish male menstruation, which is here tied, in a unique manner, to an exposition of the Jewish calendar as a method of lunar reckoning.

Matèries

Calendaris
Astronomia i astrologia
Jueus