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

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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. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Christians and Jews in the Middle Ages 1 Conflicting Accounts: Negotiating a Jewish Space in Medieval Southern Italy, c. 800–1150 CE 2 The Cross, the Jews, and the Destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in the Writings of Ademar of Chabannes 3 A Great Jewish Conspiracy? Worsening Jewish–Christian Relations and the Destruction of the Holy Sepulcher 4 Heretics and Jews in the Early Eleventh Century: The Writings of Rodulfus Glaber and Ademar of Chabannes 5 Against the Enemies of Christ: The Role of Count Emicho in the Anti-Jewish Violence of the First Crusade 6 Abelard and Heloise on Jews and Hebraica Veritas 7 Reason and Natural Law in the Disputational Writings of Peter Alfonsi, Peter Abelard, and Yehuda Halevi 8 The Jews in the Golden Legend 9 Anti-Jewish Attitudes in Anglo-Norman Religious Texts: Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 10 Henry II, William of Newburgh, and the Development of English Anti-Judaism 11 Jewish Witness, Forced Conversion, and Island Living: John Duns Scotus on Jews and Judaism Contributors Index