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- Title
Jewels of Disease and Discrimination.
- Authors
Julius, Corinne
- Abstract
Jewelry is often seen as the trivia of life yet, as discoveries in both Colmar in Alsace and at Erfurt in central Germany reveal, it can shed new light not just on communities, commerce, ritual and daily life in the 14th century but also on a dark chapter of European history. A new exhibition Treasures of the Black Death at the Wallace Collection brings together two fascinating hoards of jewellery, vessels and coins. The two finds contain a number of identifiably Jewish items, including the three earliest known examples of Jewish wedding rings, inscribed with the words Mazel Tov, Hebrew for 'good fortune', making it likely that the treasures' owners were Jews who had buried their valuables for safe-keeping at the time of the Black Death.
- Subjects
LONDON (England); ENGLAND; MEDIEVAL jewelry; JEWELRY exhibitions; HISTORIC house museums
- Publication
History Today, 2009, Vol 59, Issue 3, p5
- ISSN
0018-2753
- Publication type
Entertainment Review