Red Jews and the Antichrist as the Jewish Messiah: Michel Beheim’s "Endicrist" (c. 1455), with a Translation

• Autores: William C. McDonald
• Localización: Mediaevistik: Internationale Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Mittelalterforschung, ISSN 0934-7453, Nº. 28, 2015, págs. 195-215
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In the mid-15th century Michel Beheim composed Von des endicristes leben (Concerning the Life of the Antichrist), his adaptation of the anonymous Antichrist (Endkrist)-Bildertext, a chiroxylographic block book that had recently appeared. Beheim versifies portions of it, converting the introductory prose text and captions to woodcut prints into a musical song-text. His Endicrist, even more strongly than its model, promotes the doctrine that the Antichrist is in reality the Jewish Messiah. Beheim, lay theologian and promoter of piety through song to the highest secular nobility, was drawn to the story of the Antichrist because of its combination of anti-Jewish polemic, Messianic expectation, and eschatology. Von des endicristes leben, surprisingly missing from surveys on the Jewish Antichrist and the Red Jews, is here for the first time interpreted with regard to its intellectual horizon and translated into English.