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In this seminar, Dr Adams will examine how Jews were described in medieval Danish texts andart.  We will first see how the central image of Jews as Christ killers was used in different contexts before looking at the development of other mythological images of Jews and how these were created by a particular language.  Jonathan will conclude by describing the change in how Jews were described, beginning with the 1516 publication of Johannes Pfefferkorn's Confessions of the Jews in Danish.

Speakers profile

Jonathan Adams is a research fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, Histiry and Antiquities at the Department of Scandinavian Languages, Uppsala Universty.  His research interests include Muslim-Christian-Jewish relations in the Middle Ages, sermon tsudies and Scandanavian vernacular homiletic literature, Birgittine literature, and historical linguistics and dialectology.

Dr Adams publications include Letters in Comtempt (University of Southern Denmark, 2013) about sixteenth century ant-Jewsish literature in Denmanrk.  Since 2010, Adams has been the co-editor of Medieval Sermon Studies.