tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post9028216598078495024..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: Jews, Jews and More Medieval JewsCord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-7020382745339883982009-05-04T14:33:00.000-04:002009-05-04T14:33:00.000-04:00As always, I think Hannah should win and 'awesome'...As always, I think Hannah should win and 'awesome' prize. Looking forward very much to this Babel panel, and whatever else is coming out of this project of Jeffrey's. Maybe Jeffrey will have some neat questions for her that we can all benefit from (?).dan remeinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13011645541207076650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-13713136090932294452009-05-04T11:37:00.001-04:002009-05-04T11:37:00.001-04:00Oh, and thanks for the memory jog on Burger -- wil...Oh, and thanks for the memory jog on Burger -- will check as soon as I have the chance.Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-31679137837382137042009-05-04T11:37:00.000-04:002009-05-04T11:37:00.000-04:00Eileen, Hannah is in fact giving a paper in the sa...Eileen, Hannah is in fact giving a paper in the same session of the York conference; she and I are frequent correspondents. Her work is absolutely terrific.<br /><br />Karl, I have seen the piece and am really amazed that <A HREF="http://www.inthemedievalmiddle.com/2008/12/flash-review-ii-israel-yuval-two.html" REL="nofollow">Israel Yuval's scholarship on Christian-Jewish apocalyptic interrelations</A> doesn't figure in it. Their conclusions are similar, byt Yuval's are more radical. If I remember correctly, he also tends to see the Mainz accounts as more historically removed, a "history" that is really about a later age's eschatology.Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-10045482217896080172009-05-04T10:58:00.000-04:002009-05-04T10:58:00.000-04:00Have you yet read the Chazen article in most recen...Have you yet read the Chazen article in most recent Speculum on reciprocal millennial thinking among Jewish martyr/suicides and genocidal crusaders in Rhine valley during First Crusade? I'm not <I>totally</I> convinced of the reciprocality aspect of Chazen's argument [I think he makes a much stronger argument for rationales for genocide than for rationales for self-martyrdom], but nonetheless, it's probably of interest for your Leeds argument.<br /><br />Also, and god help me, I can't find this in my notes, but doesn't Burger in Ch's Queer Nation talk about doing 'presentist' readings of Chaucer that try to forget the future that England would become in order to return to his present its possibility and heterogeneity, in other words, to return the present to its (late 14th-century) present? GB's points here (wherever they are!) are also useful for your 'York in 1189' project.Karl Steelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03353370018006849747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-29783112616372220122009-05-04T10:39:00.000-04:002009-05-04T10:39:00.000-04:00Jeffrey: you might be interested to know that Hann...Jeffrey: you might be interested to know that Hannah Johnson's comments at BABEL's first roundtable on the place of ethics in medieval scholarship are directly related to your project here.Eileen Joyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13756965845120441308noreply@blogger.com