Beschreibung:
Jeremy Cohen holds the Melton Chair of Jewish History at The Ohio State University and is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University.
PrefaceAbbreviationsIntroductionPART ONE: THE EMERGENCE OF MENDICANT ANTI-JUDAISM1. The Early Medieval Background2. The Mendicant Orders3. The Attack on Rabbinic Literature4. The Spread of Inquisitorial ActivityPART TWO: IDEOLOGICAL REFINEMENTS5. The School of Raymond de Peñiaforte: Pablo Christiani6. The School of Raymond de Peñiaforte: Raymond Martini7. Synthesis and Diffusion: Nicholas of LyraPART THREE: THE IDEOLOGY IN PERSPECTIVE: ITS APPLICATIONS AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE8. Raymond Lull9. Involving the Laity: Mendicant Poetry and Preaching10. Conclusion: Mendicant Anti-Judaism and the Evolving Self-Consciousness of Latin ChristendomAppendix: Textual Parallels in Nicholas of Lyra's Quodlibeturn and Raymond Martini's Pugio fideiBibliographyIndex
"Cohen argues that it was in the thirteenth century that a fundamental shift occurred in the Christian perception of both Judaism and Jews in Western Europe, and he attributes this change to the activities of the newly-formed mendicant orders--the Dominicans and Franciscans. In order to make this case as effectively as he does, the author has to...