The Jewish-Christian Encounter in Medieval Preaching [Hardcover]

This book explores the complexity of preaching as a phenomenon in the medieval Jewish-Christian encounter. This was not only an encounter as physical meeting or confrontation (such as the forced attendance of Jews at Christian sermons that took place across Europe), but also an imaginary or theological encounter in which Jews remained a figure from a distant constructed time and place who served only to underline and verify Christian teachings. Contributors also explore the Jewish response to Christian anti-Jewish preaching in their own preaching and religious instruction.

1. Introduction: The Jewish-Christian Encounter in Medieval Preaching  Jonathan Adams and Jussi Hanska  Part I: Regional Studies  2. Preaching and Jews in Late Antique and Visigothic Iberia  Ra?l Gonz?lez Salinero  3. Sub Iudaica Infirmitate Under the Jewish Weakness : Jews in Medieval German Sermons  Regina D. Schiewer  4. Preaching About an Absent Minority: Medieval Danish Sermons and Jews  Jonathan Adams  Part II: Preachers and Occasions  5. Our Sister Is Little and Has No Breasts : Mary and the Jews in the Sermons of Honorius Augustodunensis  Kati Ihnat  6. The Anti-Jewish Sermons of John of Capistrano: Matters and Context  Filippo Sedda  7. The Effects of Bernardino da Feltres Preaching on the Jews  Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli  8. Sermons on the Tenth Sunday After Holy Trinity: Another Occasion for Anti-Jewish Preaching  Jussi Hanska  Part III: Symbols and Images  9. Beauty and the Bestiary: Animals, Wonder, and Polemic in Medieval Ashkenaz  David I. Shyovitz  10. The Origin of a Medieval l“*