Devils, Women, and Jews

by Joan Young Gregg

• ISBN13: 9780791434178
• ISBN10: 0791434176
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2012-02-01
• Publisher: State University of New York Press (SUNY Press)

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Chapter One Introduction	1	(22)
Chapter Two Devils in Medieval Sermon Stories	23	(60)
Exempla about Devils	46	(37)
D1. The Devil and St. Macarius in Church	46	(1)
D2. St. Macarius Defeats the Devil as Physician	47	(2)
D3. A Devil in the Form of a Toad	49	(1)
D4. An Ungrateful Son	50	(1)
D5. The Devil Disguised as a Pilgrim	51	(1)
D6. The Torment of Bishop Udo	52	(2)
D7. An Adulterer Punished by the Devil	54	(1)
D8. A Usurer Outsmarts Himself	55	(1)
D9. The Vision of a Drunken Pilgrim	56	(1)
D10. A Sinful Clerk's Cloak of Feathers	56	(2)
D11. The Devil and a Knight's Charity	58	(1)
D12. A Devil Bows to the Host	59	(3)
D13. The Stone of Knowledge	62	(1)
D14. The Magician and His Student	62	(1)
D15. The Skeptical Knight and the Devil	63	(1)
D16. The Devil Who Rode with a Knight	64	(1)
D17. The Devil and a Clerk in Love	65	(2)
D18. Pope Sylvester and the Devil	67	(1)
D19. The Devil's Recordkeeping	68	(1)
D20. The Devil's Competition	69	(1)
D21. Devils Debate for a Usurer's Soul	70	(2)
D22. The Judgment of Peter the Tax Collector	72	(1)
D23. The Devil and St. Lawrence's Pot	73	(1)
D24. A Pilgrim to St. James Saved from the Devil	74	(3)
D25. The Devil Claims a Lecherous Priest	77	(1)
D26. The Unrepentant Knight	78	(1)
Source Notes to Exempla About Devils	79	(4)
Chapter Three Women in Medieval Sermon Stories	83	(86)
Exempla about Women	110	(59)
W1. A Gown with a Train of Devils	110	(1)
W2. The Lady Who Took Too Long to Get Dressed	111	(1)
W3. A Knight's Two Wives	111	(3)
W4. A Priest's Vision of His Mother	114	(1)
W5. A Woman Who Ate Her Husband's Eel	115	(1)
W6. A Woman Damned for Dying in Anger	116	(1)
W7. The Obedience of Wives	117	(1)
W8. An Abbess' Severed Corpse	118	(1)
W9. A Wife Reveals Her Husband's Secret	119	(1)
W10. A Riddle of a King, Wine, and Women	120	(1)
W11. A Woman Leads a Knight into Murder	121	(1)
W12. A Saint's Skeptical Wife	122	(1)
W13. The Collier's Vision	123	(1)
W14. The Spectre of a Priest's Concubine	124	(1)
W15. A Lecherous Woman Fails to Reform	125	(1)
W16. A Bawd's Warning to Her Husband	126	(1)
W17. A Roper's False Wife	127	(4)
W18. The Witch and the Cowsucking Bag	131	(1)
W19. The Witch of Berkeley	132	(1)
W20. St. Bernard Delivers a Woman from a Fiend	133	(1)
W21. The Devil Seduces a Priest's Daughter	134	(1)
W22. A Mother Forgiven for Incest	134	(1)
W23. The Temptations of Devils as Women	135	(1)
W24. Women Called "Secular Monks"	136	(1)
W25. A Monk and a Saracen's Daughter	137	(5)
W26. A False Accusation against St. Macarius	142	(2)
W27. A Bishop Tempted by a Demonic Beauty is Saved by St. Andrew	144	(3)
W28. The Humble Nun	147	(1)
W29. A Nun Tears Out Her Eyes to Protect Her Chastity	148	(1)
W30. Of a Woman Who Would Rather Drown than Lose Her Chastity	148	(1)
W31. Thais, the Harlot Who Reformed	149	(2)
W32. The Trials of St. Theodora	151	(2)
W33. An Argument between the Virgin and the Devil	153	(2)
W34. The Virgin Helps a Deceived Anchoress	155	(1)
W35. The Virgin Defends a Matron against the Devil	156	(1)
W36. A Lustful Abbess	157	(5)
W37. The Virgin Puts Devils in the Stocks	162	(2)
Source Notes to Exempla about Women	164	(5)
Chapter Four Jews in Medieval Sermon Stories	169	(68)
Exempla about Jews	203	(34)
J1. A Jew Predicts St. Basil's Death	203	(1)
J2. Two Tales of St. Nicholas	204	(2)
J3. The Jew at the Devil's Council	206	(5)
J4. St. Helen and the True Cross	211	(1)
J5. Jews Attack a Christian's Crucifix	212	(2)
J6. Jews Attempt to Rebuild Jerusalem	214	(1)
J7. A Jew Falls into a Stinking Pit	215	(1)
J8. The Jew Who Would Be a Bishop	216	(1)
J9. Theophilus, a Jew, and the Devil	217	(1)
J10. Jews Expecting the Messiah Are Deceived by a Clerk	218	(2)
J11. The Canon and the Jew's Daughter	220	(1)
J12. A Jew in Church	221	(1)
J13. Parisian Jews Bloody the Host	222	(1)
J14. An Easter Miracle of the Host Converts the Jews	222	(2)
J15. A Jew's Dog Rejects the Host	224	(2)
J16. A Jew Tests the Power of the Host with Pigs	226	(1)
J17. A Jew Debates the Virginity of Mary	226	(1)
J18. The Virgin Rescues a Jewish Merchant	227	(2)
J19. The Monk, the Virgin, and the Jew	229	(3)
J20. A Jewish Boy Is Saved from a Furnace (The Jew of Bourges)	232	(1)
Source Notes to Exempla about Jews	233	(4)
Notes	237	(18)
Abbreviations	255	(2)
Bibliography	257	(12)
Index	269