CONTACT INFORMATION:
Professor
Centre for Jewish Studies
School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
University of Leeds
UK - Leeds LS2 9JT
| Office Telephone: | 0044-113-3435197 |
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| Active email: | e.frojmovic@leeds.ac.uk |
| Relevant Webpage: | http://www.leeds.ac.uk/fine_art/people/staff/ef.html |
SCHOLARLY INTERESTS:
Current area(s) of research:
Manuscript studies, medieval jewish culture, jewish art, jewish-christian dynamics.
Strategies of difference in Hebrew illuminated manuscripts in 13th/14th century Germany. The question of the image in Jewish- christian dynamics in medieval Germany (13th-14th c.)
Selected publications, recent and forthcoming:
E. Frojmovic ed., Imagining the Self, Imagining the Other: Visual Representation and Jewish-Christian Dynamics in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, Leiden: Brill, 2002.
includes two of my essays: "Buber in Basle, Schlosser in Sarajevo, Wischnitzer in Weimar: The Politics of Writing about Medieval Jewish Art", and "Messianic politics in re-Christianized Spain: Images of the Sanctuary in Hebrew Bible manuscripts."
"Travelling to the Circumcision: Early Modern Representations", in: Circumcision: New Perspectives on an Ancient Rite, edited by R. Wasserfall and E. Mark, Hanover/London: Brandeis University Press/ University Press of New England, 2003, pp. 128-41
"Gendered Representations of the Circumcision between Family and Community", in: Framing the Family: Representation and Narrative in the Medieval and Early Modern Period, ed. R. Voaden and D. Wolfthal, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, (in print, should come out in 2004)
WUN-IDENTIFIED RESEARCH COLLABORATION THEMES:
Multilingualism in the Middle Ages:
Communication between Jewish patrons/scribes and Christian illuminators of Hebrew manuscripts: bilingual instructions for the illuminator.
History of the Medieval Book:
All aspects of hebrew manuscript production, especially illumination.
Medieval Chronicle Studies:
Ph.D.s UNDER SUPERVISION:
STAFF EXCHANGES/ONLINE RESOURCE CREATION/VIDEOCONFERENCING:
I'd be happy to provide advice to any Ph.D. student interested in my research areas.
MEDIEVAL COURSES TAUGHT:
The Margins of Medieval Art (new course to be taught for the first time next year)
MEDIEVAL COURSES YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE DEVELOPED:
A level 2 (i.e. second year) course introducing into medieval image making: icons, narratives, allegory, medieval aesthetics, theology and anthropology of images.
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