13 St Barnabas and the Jews

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents IX
4. Preface XXI
5. Abbreviations XXIII
6. Editorial Procedure and Conventions XXV
7. Medieval Scandinavia and Jews
8. 1 Introduction 1
9. 2 Jews in Medieval Denmark and Sweden 30
10. Language
11. 3 Writing about Jews: A Guide to East Norse Terminology 47
12. 4 The Language of the Jews: Knowledge about Hebrew in Medieval Scandinavia 95
13. Identifying “the Jew”
14. 5 The Jewish Body: From Top to Toe 129
15. Killing Christ
16. 6 Modelling Feelings and Behaviours: Jews and the Passion in Sermons and Devotional Literature 219
17. Demonstrating Christian Truth
18. 7 Witnesses of Truth and Doctrine: Miracles, Saints’ Lives, and Exempla 299
19. 8 Darkness and Light: Miracles, Saints’ Lives, and Exempla 370
20. The Jewish Peril: Past, Present, and Future
21. 9 Jews in History: Exemplary Figures, Keepers of Relics, Tormentors of the Christ Child, and Absent Jerusalemites 437
22. 10 The Jewish Plot to Destroy All Christendom: The Black Death and Well-Poisoning 486
23. 11 The Jewish Threat to Destroy All Christendom: The Red Jews, Antichrist, and the Apocalypse 518
24. Conclusion
25. 12 Conclusion 545
26. VOLUME II: TEXTS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
27. 1 A Jew Converts and Speaks to his Sons from Heaven 557
28. 2 A Jew Predicts St Basil’s Death 563
29. 3 A Pregnant Jewish Woman’s Father Converts 565
30. 4 A Sermon for Good Friday 567
31. 5 A Sermon for Passion Sunday 612
32. 6 Esther 629
33. 7 Jerusalem in The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 644
34. 8 Jesus Raises a Jew from the Dead 667
35. 9 Judith 679
36. 10 Mary of Bethezuba 686
37. 11 Petronia and the Ring 692
38. 12 Sermons for the Feast of the Circumcision 695
39. 13 St Barnabas and the Jews 713
40. 14 St Gamaliel the Elder Speaks to Lucian the Priest 715
41. 15 St James the Great and the Sorcerer Hermogenes 718
42. 16 St James the Great Converts Josiah the Jew 723
43. 17 St James the Just and the Jews of Jerusalem 727
44. 18 St Macarius and the Talking Skull 736
45. 19 St Sylvester and the Disputation with the Twelve Jewish Scholars 741
46. 20 The Antichrist 756
47. 21 The Chains of St Peter 760
48. 22 The Clay Birds 766
49. 23 The Converted Jew and the Devil 773
50. 24 The Disputation and the Miracle 781
51. 25 The Emperor Hadrian 783
52. 26 The Emperor Vespasian and Titus 785
53. 27 The Enclosed Jews 801
54. 28 The Fifteen Places 813
55. 29 The Finding of the Holy Cross 927
56. 30 The Flying Host and the Jew’s Son 938
57. 31 The Helmeted Preface 939
58. 32 The Hermit and the Jewess 951
59. 33 The Host Desecration 956
60. 34 The Jew and the Lightning Strike 959
61. 35 The Jew and the Staff Filled with Gold 960
62. 36 The Jew at the Devils’ Council 964
63. 37 The Jew, the Axe, and St Nicholas 970
64. 38 The Jew, the Fish, and the Host 971
65. 39 The Jew, the Host, the Devil, and the Sieve 973
66. 40 The Jew Who Attacked the Virgin Mary’s Bier 976
67. 41 The Jew Who Stabbed the Icon 980
68. 42 The Jewish Boy in the Oven 983
69. 43 The Jews Who Found and Attacked an Image of Christ 996
70. 44 The Life of Judas Iscariot 1006
71. 45 The Little Jewish Girl Rachel Who Joined a Nunnery 1017
72. 46 The Merchant’s Surety 1035
73. 47 The Pilgrims’ Guide to the Holy Land 1040
74. 48 The Punishment of the Jews 1068
75. 49 The Stoning of St Stephen 1079
76. 50 The Three Young Men in the Oven 1086
77. 51 The Virgin Mary Releases and Converts a Jewish Prisoner 1091
78. 52 Theophilus and the Devil 1093
79. 53 Well poisoning 1097
80. 54 Yael 1109
81. List of Works 1111
82. Bibliography 1136
83. Index 1178