Women and Jews in the Sachsenspiegel Picture-Books. Madeline H. Caviness and Charles G. Nelson. London: Harvey Miller, 2018. vi + 472 pp. €200

• Published in: Renaissance quarterly Vol. 74; no. 1; pp. 309 - 310
• Main Author: Freedman, Marci
• Format: Journal Article Book Review
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 01.04.2021
• Subjects: 13th century; 14th century; Historical text analysis; Ideology; Jewish people; Philosophy; Picture books; Renaissance period; Society

Women and Jews in the Sachsenspiegel Picture-Books presents a contextual study of Eike von Repgow's thirteenth-century Sachsenspiegel and the four extant pictorial recensions from the fourteenth century. Caviness here offers a fuller treatment of Eike's legal text, the relationship between...