Project description
Shared Christian-Jewish visions in medieval Europe
Christian apocalyptic thought often portrayed Jews within hostile narratives, shaping religious tensions across Europe. Yet lesser-known traditions reveal moments of more positive expectations. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the MESSCJE project explores how Late Medieval and Early Modern thinkers developed shared Christian-Jewish visions of the end times that differed from dominant apocalyptic beliefs of their era. Focusing on such sources as John of Rupescissa, Johannes Angelus of Legonissa and Guillaume Postel, the MESSCJE project studies the topic of Jewish redemption, religious reforms and universal world order. This project aims at revealing the roots of philo-Semitism in the following centuries.
Objective
"MESSCJE: MESSianic hopes: Christian-Jewish eschatological Encounters in the Middle Ages and early modern era
MESSCJE examines a set of late medieval and early modern sources revealing convergences between Christian and Jewish end-time
expectations, in contrast with dominant Christian apocalyptic views of their time. These sources contributed to a new ""filo-
Semite"" (pro-Jewish) understanding that grew more widespread in later centuries.
The research focuses on three key authors: John of Rupescissa's prophetic works (mid-14th century), Johannes Angelus of Legonissa's
Opus Davidicum (ca. 1497), and a selection of Guillaume Postel's writings (mid-16th century). These texts share three core elements:
the return of the Jewish people to Jerusalem and the restoration of their kingdom; the Jews' conversion to a reformed Christianity,
preceded by a purification of the corrupt Church; the unification of the world during the final age of history by a Christian universal
monarch with messianic traits, in association with the future leader of the eschatological Jewish kingdom.
While modern ""filo-Semite"" eschatological expectations have been extensively studied, their late medieval and early modern
precursors have received little attention. The project aims to fill this gap, by extending the analysis of Rupescissa's reception of Jewish
messianic elements, providing the first in-depth analysis of Legonissa's treatment of these elements, and reassessing the impact of
Jewish messianic elements on Postel's speculation.
The project's overarching objective is to analyze the medieval and early modern precursors of an eschatological tradition previously
explored almost exclusively from the 17th century onward. It aims to provide the first comprehensive study of the ""prehistory"" of
Christian ""filo-Semitism"" and offer insights into how eschatological and apocalyptic speculations affected Jewish-Christian
relationships in Europe up to the present day."
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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44801 Bochum
Germany
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