Five: A Usable Past

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction: Equality, Supersession, and Anxiety 1
5. One. Ambivalence and Continuity 37
6. Two. The Bollandists and Their Work 55
7. Three. Richard of Pontoise and Philip Augustus 75
8. Four The Jewish Version: The Bollandist Reconstruction Vindicated 99
9. Five: A Usable Past 119
10. Six: Purity and Its Discontents 133
11. Seven: Denouement 158
12. Appendix One: Bollandist and Parallel Texts 177
13. Appendix Two: Translation of the Blois Letters 198
14. Notes 203
15. Select Bibliography 293
16. Index 309