Christian Attitudes Toward the Jews in the Middle Ages: A Casebook

by Frassetto; Michael

• ISBN13: 9780415978279
• ISBN10: 0415978270
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Drawing from an equally wide range of sources-sermons, polemical texts, theological treatises, hagiographical and devotional works, and histories-the volume demonstrates the emergence of a profoundly negative image of the Jews that established many of the stereotypes of classic Christian anti-Semitism. The volume, in particular, argues that the essential turning point in relations between Christians and Jews occurred in the eleventh century, especially the early eleventh century when the first wave of persecutions of the Jews took place. Note on non teleological nature of development although the prominent theme explored in this volume is the emergence of the medieval anti-Jewish tradition, several chapters will show that open hostility toward the Jews and the development of negative stereotypes of the Jew were not the only components of Jewish and Christian relations during the High Middle Ages. Indeed, in its investigation into a broad range of secular and theological sources, this volume reveals not onlythe emergence of a Christian anti-Jewish tradition in the Middle Ages but also reveals a more open and positive understanding that some medieval writers had of the Jews and their place in history and society. Like other volumes in the Routledge Medieval Casebooks series, this book will be produced in hardback only, and will be aimed primarily at academic libraries with Medieval Studies, Religion, and Jewish Studies collection

Table of Contents

Introduction : Christians and Jews in the Middle Ages
Conflicting accounts : negotiating a Jewish space in medieval Southern Italy, c. 800-1150 C.E.	p. 1
The cross, the Jews, and the destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in the writings of Ademar of Chabannes	p. 15
A great Jewish conspiracy? : worsening Jewish-Christian relations and the destruction of the Holy Sepulcher	p. 25
Heretics and Jews in the early eleventh century : the writings of Rodulfus Glaber and Ademar of Chabannes	p. 43
Against the enemies of Christ : the role of Count Emicho in the anti-Jewish violence of the First Crusade	p. 61
Abelard and Heloise on Jews and Hebraica Veritas	p. 83
Reason and natural law in the disputational writings of Peter Alfonsi, Peter Abelard, and Yehuda Halevi	p. 109
The Jews in the Golden Legend	p. 137
Anti-Jewish attitudes in Anglo-Norman religious texts : twelfth and thirteenth centuries	p. 151
Henry II, William of Newburgh, and the development of English anti-Judaism	p. 167
Jewish witness, forced conversion, and island living : John Duns Scotus on Jews and Judaism	p. 183
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