Article ID: CBB001420813

Les attributs chimériques de peuples réels. Queue des Anglais et queue des Juifs au Moyen Âge et à l'époque moderne (2012)

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Savy, Pierre (Author)


Micrologus: Natura, Scienze e Società Medievali
Volume: 20
Pages: 239--256


Publication Date: 2012
Edition Details: Article in a special issue, “Estremità e escrescenze dei corpi / Extremities and Excrescences of the Body”
Language: French

Surprisingly, during the Middle Ages and Early modern period the English and the Jews were sometimes believed to have tails. But unlike `exotic' and sometimes unreal nations who were commonly given various chimerical and monstrous features, the English and the Jews were of course real nations that were present in the West. The meanings of these beliefs are significantly different: the phrase regarding `the tailed Englishman', which was a bad joke or an insult, more than a sincere belief, referred to alleged English animalistic tendencies and perfidy, whereas we suggest that the animal and satanic appendix of the Jews can also be understood as a literal interpretation of a passage from the Bible.

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Authors & Contributors
Mandelbrote, Scott
Tim Flight
Paola Ricci Sindoni
Bainbridge, David
Vermij, Rienk H.
Stenhouse, John
Concepts
Science and religion
Bible
Teratology; monsters
Human body
Science and culture
Theology
Time Periods
Early modern
Medieval
17th century
Renaissance
18th century
16th century
Places
England
Italy
Europe
Great Britain
Scotland
United States
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