Hidden Images, visible Prejudices. Representations of Jews in the Libri Judeorum from the Episcopal Archive and Library of Vic in the fourteenth Century

The research on the Jewish community of Vic has been based mainly on the study of the Libri Judeorum preserved in the Episcopal Archive and Library of Vic (ABEV). However, there is one element of this series that has not been studied: the images of the Jews drawn on the covers or inside the sheets of this notarial records. A total of 21 drawings of Jews have been located, all of them from 1310 to 1354. These representations evolved as the fourteenth century progresses and allow a reflection on the perception that Christian society had of this group, and how stereotypes and an iconography about “the Jews” were created and consolidated.