Table des matières
Introductions
Kevin R. Brine
1. The Judith ProjectDeborah Levine Gera
2. The Jewish Textual TraditionsElena Ciletti et Henrike Lähnemann
3. Judith in the Christian TraditionWriting Judith
Jewish Textual Traditions
Barbara Schmitz
4. Holofernes’s Canopy in the SeptuagintDeborah Levine Gera
5. Shorter Medieval Hebrew Tales of JudithRuth von Bernuth et Michael Terry
7. Shalom bar Abraham’s Book of Judith in YiddishChristian Textual Tradition
Marc Mastrangelo
8. Typology and Agency in Prudentius’s Treatment of the Judith StoryTracey-Anne Cooper
9. Judith in Late Anglo-Saxon EnglandKathleen M. Llewellyn
11. The Example of Judith in Early Modern French LiteratureHenrike Lähnemann
13. The Cunning of Judith in Late Medieval German TextsJanet Bartholomew
14. The Role of Judith in Margaret Fell’s Womens Speaking JustifiedStaging Judith
Visual Arts
Elizabeth Bailey
15. Judith, Jael, and Humilitas in the Speculum Virginum- Introduction
- Arundel 44 (The Speculum Virginum)
- The Virtue of Humility
- Judith, Humilitas, and the Psychomachia in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries
- Judith and Humilitas in the Eleventh Century
- The ”Three Types of Women” and Judith as a Widow
- The ”Quadriga” Judith and the Virgin Mary
- Judith, Mary, and Humility in Later Manuscripts
- Conclusion
Sarah Blake McHam
17. Donatello’s Judith as the Emblem of God’s Chosen PeopleDiane Apostolos-Cappadona
18. Costuming Judith in Italian Art of the Sixteenth CenturyMusic and Drama
Kelley Harness
20. Judith, Music, and Female Patrons in Early Modern ItalyDavid Marsh
21. Judith in Baroque OratorioPaolo Bernardini
22. Judith in the Italian Unification Process, 1800–1900- Judith Lore from the Eighteenth to the Nineteenth Century: From Individual to ”National” Hero
- The Last Phase of the Individual Heroine in the Age of the Enlightenment: Vivaldi and Cassetti, Mozart and Metastasio
- Metamorphosis and Decline of Judith: The Italian Nineteenth Century
- Conclusion. Judith between Farce and Sensual Decadence: Paving the Way for Klimt
Alexandre Lhâa
23. Marcello and Peri’s Giuditta (1860)Gabrijela Mecky Zaragoza
25. Judith and the ”Jew-Eaters” in German Volkstheater- Judith und Holofernes (1818)
- Fighting the ”Evil Talmudic Principles”
- Perverting Non-Jewish/Jewish Encounters: Der Verkehrte Verkehr
- Updating the Judith/Jewish Question
- Johann Nestroy’s Judith und Holofernes (1849)
- Stigmatizing the Jews
- Challenging Stereotypes
- Fighting the ”Jew-Eaters”
- Updating the Judith/Jewish Question
