Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Illustrations xi
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1. The Creation of a Narrative: Byzantine Tales of Jews Desecrating Images 29
6. Chapter 2. Desecration Tales and Their Narrative Transformations in Twelfth-and Thirteenth-Century Western Europe 62
7. Chapter 3. Jews, Conversos, and Image Desecration in Spain 105
8. Chapter 4. Jewish Responses to Christian Images 140
9. Chapter 5. Image Desecration in Medieval and Early Modern Italy 186
10. Chapter 6. Image Desecration in Spilamberto A Case Study 254
11. Conclusion 289
12. Notes 297
13. Bibliography 375
14. Index 413
15. Acknowledgments 425