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Antithetical Arts: On the Ancient Quarrel between Literature and Music

Antithetical Arts: On the Ancient Quarrel between Literature and Music doi 10.1215/0961754X-1305382 17:3 © 2011 by Duke University Press Jean-Claude Schmitt, The Conversion of Herman the Jew: Autobiography, History and Fiction in the Twelfth Century, trans. Alex J. Novikoff (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010), 303 pp. Schmitt’s study of the “Short Work About His Conversion,” attributed to “Her­ man the former Jew,” was published in 2003 to great acclaim and appears here in a somewhat awkward and occasionally inaccurate English translation. An appropri­ ate sequel to Schmitt’s earlier work on folktales, dreams, gestures, and ghosts — as well as to the concerns of earlier practitioners, such as Natalie Zemon Davis and Carlo Ginzburg, of what is sometimes called historical anthropology — Schmitt’s book tackles squarely the debates over the “Short History” that have raged since Avrom Saltman proposed in 1988 that no such person as Herman ever existed. Arguing against Gerlinde Niemeyer’s efforts, in her edition of 1963, to flesh out information about the author, Saltman took the Opusculum as a polemical work written by twelfth­century Christians for their coreligionists — a view that was made far more subtle in 1992 by Karl Morrison, who continued to see the treatise as proselytizing but argued that we need http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Common Knowledge Duke University Press

Antithetical Arts: On the Ancient Quarrel between Literature and Music

Common Knowledge , Volume 17 (3) – Sep 21, 2011

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doi 10.1215/0961754X-1305382 17:3 © 2011 by Duke University Press Jean-Claude Schmitt, The Conversion of Herman the Jew: Autobiography, History and Fiction in the Twelfth Century, trans. Alex J. Novikoff (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010), 303 pp. Schmitt’s study of the “Short Work About His Conversion,” attributed to “Her­ man the former Jew,” was published in 2003 to great acclaim and appears here in a somewhat awkward and occasionally inaccurate English translation. An appropri­ ate sequel to Schmitt’s earlier work on folktales, dreams, gestures, and ghosts — as well as to the concerns of earlier practitioners, such as Natalie Zemon Davis and Carlo Ginzburg, of what is sometimes called historical anthropology — Schmitt’s book tackles squarely the debates over the “Short History” that have raged since Avrom Saltman proposed in 1988 that no such person as Herman ever existed. Arguing against Gerlinde Niemeyer’s efforts, in her edition of 1963, to flesh out information about the author, Saltman took the Opusculum as a polemical work written by twelfth­century Christians for their coreligionists — a view that was made far more subtle in 1992 by Karl Morrison, who continued to see the treatise as proselytizing but argued that we need

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Published: Sep 21, 2011

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