Anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim imagery differed in frequency because of political threat levels
Evidence
Jewish dog-men appear in medieval texts with less frequency than their Muslim counterparts, which may be due to the threat that Islam posed militarily and politically, the social position of Jews in Christian communities, and the additional spaces in which anti-Jewish characters are found, including the bestiary. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 219
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Ties the two anti-other strands of the reader’s inquiry together — theological Jew-hatred and manufactured Muslim-monster imagery as parallel but differentially weighted constructions.
Related
- Islam’s military threat explains why Muslim dog-men outnumber Jewish ones in medieval texts (similarity 0.90)
- Depicting Jews as dog-men reinforced the parallel trope of Muslims as Christ-killers (similarity 0.83)
- Jews and Muslims shared the dog-headed monster linked to the devil in Christendom (similarity 0.83)
- Muslim dog-men outnumbered Jewish ones because Islam posed a military threat (similarity 0.82)
- Medieval anti-Muslim rhetoric borrowed bodily-debility tropes from anti-Jewish writing (similarity 0.81)
- Bestiaries cast both Jews and Muslims as dogs and dog-headed men (similarity 0.81)
- Jews and Muslims were interchangeable demonic figures in the medieval Christian imagination. (similarity 0.81)
- Medieval monster imagery persists in modern political discourse about Muslims. (similarity 0.80)
- Anti-Semitic Christ-killer imagery is easily sourced while its Muslim counterpart is not (similarity 0.80)
- Christian art associated Jews with barking dogs and cannibal violence (similarity 0.80)
- Dog-headed men served medieval art as both Jew and Muslim monsters of evil (similarity 0.79)
- Medieval anti-Jewish monster imagery supplied the template for the Muslim monster (similarity 0.79)
- Bestiaries transferred Jewish monstrous symbols onto Muslim characters (similarity 0.79)
- Medieval Christian art equated Jews and Muslims under shared imagery (similarity 0.79)
- Muslim monsters were depicted as cannibals who ate their enemies. (similarity 0.79)