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The document discusses how Jewish women were not given distinctive visual symbols or physiognomies in medieval Christian art like Jewish men were. It analyzes illustrations from the Cantigas de Santa Maria to understand why. The author argues that Jewish women could not embody qualities like Jewish law and ritual that caricatured Jewish men represented. Their anonymity encoded ideas of potential conversion and receptivity to Christianity.

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Anonymous undyM1

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