Anti-Jewish, late medieval single broadsheets and pamphlets – between piety and Anti-Judaism (working title)

The invention of printing with movable letters in the middle of the 15th century led to the establishment of various new media. In addition to books, broadsheets and pamphlets were now also produced. At around the same time, the legal, social and economic situation of the Jewish population in the Christian-dominated late medieval Reich worsened considerably. The newly created printings were now also used to attack and defame Jews. Anti-Jewish broadsheets and pamphlets were produced and circulated, which, among other things, took up medieval anti-Jewish narratives such as ritual murder legends or host desecration accusations. This PhD project analyses these printings from the early period of book printing with regard to their function in a social context. The question is also how the anti-Jewish printed material can be categorised in late medieval piety practices and movements. Therefore, the argumentation structures in the historical sources are analysed in a differentiated way.

• Summer term 2022 Seminar: ‚Incunables – Sources from the early printing period‘
• Summer term 2021 Seminar: ‚van den bosen joden – The desecration of hosts legend as an Anti-Jewish stereotype’ & ‚Basic working techniques of medieval history studies’
• Winter term 2020/21 Seminar: ‚Jewish people in medieval sources’ & Seminar: ‚Of nuns, empresses and prostitutes – women in the Middle Ages‘
• Summer term 2020 Seminar: ‚Anti-Judaism in the Middle Ages‘ & ‚Memoria in medieval times‘

• Anti-Jewish woodcuts in pamphlets of the late Middle Ages - an insight (08.12.2023, Berlin, research colloquium of Prof Dorothea Weltecke)
• Anti-Jewish broadsheets and pamphlets of the late Middle Ages, an insight. (30.06.2023, Kiel, colloquium of the north-German medieval studies (Nordeutsche Mediävistik)
• Anti-Jewish, pre-Reformation broadsheets and pamphlets between anti-Judaism and (popular)piety. A workshop report (13.06.2023, HU Berlin, research colloquium of Prof Dorothea Weltecke)
• Anti-Judaism in medieval Mecklenburg. A comparison of host miracles and accusations of host desecration in Mecklenburg and Prignitz (24.05.2023, Rostock, Rostock Museum of Cultural History, lecture series of the Association for the history of Rostock)
• Anti-Jewish, pre-Reformation broadsheets and pamphlets between piety and anti-Judaism. A workshop report (06.07.2022, Potsdam, Institute for Jewish Studies and Religious Studies, research colloquium (Prof. Rauschenbach, Prof. Schulte))
• The pamphlets on the Sternberg host desecration accusation in 1492 between piety and anti-Judaism (07.05.2022, online, as part of the scientific workshop: Sternberg 1492: Reconstruction, Reception, Processing)
• The ritual murder legend then and now - on the transmission and modernization of an anti-Jewish stereotype (17.01.2022, online, Lecture series organized by the Catholic Student Community Rostock)
• Of peaceful neighbourhoods and 'hardened enemies' - on Jewish-Christian relations in the Middle Ages (02.06.2021, together with Prof Dr Marc von der Höh, as part of the festive year "1700 years of Jewish life in Germany" in Rostock)

• with von der Höh, Marc: The festive year at the University of Rostock. In: Traditio et Innovatio, magazine of the University of Rostock, 01/2022. p. 6-7. (in German) (special issue for the festive year 2021 „1700 years of Jewish life in Germany“ at the University of Rostock)
• Lehmann, Marie: Anti-Jewish narratives in the European Middle Ages. In: Traditio et Innovatio, magazine of the University of Rostock, 01/2022. p. 10-11. (in German)
• Lehmann, Marie: Remembering together, remembering differently. The view of Germans and Russians on the Nazi war of extermination (1941-1945). Prof Dr Stefan Creuzberger in a conversation with Dr Sabine Grabowski - Report on a panel discussion. In: Traditio et Innovatio, magazine of the University of Rostock, 01/2022. p. 32-33. (in German)