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The Imaginary Enemy: Infidels and Heretics in Medieval Iconography

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Coats of arms and flags depicting scorpions, exotic turbans and caps, hooked noses, red hair, scarlet-red, black or even blue faces, unnaturally twisted postures, obscene gestures and viciously aggressive grimaces. The art of the medieval West used many signs that labeled and denounced non-believers (Jews, Muslims, and pagans), heretics, other sinners, and outcasts. They were all correlated with the "father of lies" - the devil - as well as with each other, as if they were part of a global conspiracy against Christian society. Pagan Romans were sometimes represented wearing Jewish hats and pseudo-Jewish inscriptions on their robes, Jews wearing Muslim turbans, and Muslims accused of idol worship and invoking ancient Roman gods. In this new book, medievalist Mikhail Mayzuls shows how the image of the enemy was constructed from the twelfth to the sixteenth century, how mechanisms of stigmatization worked in the space of images and on the streets of cities, and how the techniques that emerged in the Middle Ages passed into pamphlets, posters, and caricatures of the New Age.
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